420 LYCOPODIUM INUNDAT-UM. 



400 copies, above one fourth of which number has been sent 

 abroad. The encouragement therefore for carrying on the 

 work has hitherto been not very great ; but your having di- 

 rected public attention so strongly to it, and the anxious 

 wishes of my friends, have stimulated me to determine now 

 upon its immediate continuation, which I hope to effect in a 

 month from this time. 



I fear I have said too much about myself, but you will 

 perhaps excuse me if I say a few words in reference to the 

 translation. Mons. Agassiz has not always improved the ge- 

 neric characters by the alterations he has made. For instance, 



under Solen he says, "Car. Gen. Bivalve longitudinale," 



instead of transversely elongated. In Ammonites the word 

 "dorsal " is inserted, whereas the siphon is truly ventral ; &c. 

 Neither has he embodied all the corrections given in the lat- 

 ter part of the work, indeed he seems not to have consulted 

 the index in No. 105 in any case. There Cassis is referred 

 to Cassidaria ; Modiola parallela to Plagiostoma elongatum; 

 Helicina to Rotella; Helix carinatus to Pleurotomaria, whe- 

 ther correctly or not, may be a question, but certainly it is 

 not a Cirrus, (he proposes to name it Cirrus Sowerby) ; Ve- 

 nus to Cyprina ; Murex to Fusus ; and Vivipara to Palu- 

 dina : though Agassiz has introduced several of these altera- 

 tions as his own. Still, some of his remarks are good, and 

 will not be lost sight of by me. 



I am, Sir, 



Your's, &c. 



J. D. C. Sowerby. 



SHORT COMMUNICATIONS. 



/ trust I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in London in 

 July, 1840 ; in the mean time I hope I shall be a little suc- 

 cessful in procuring a few more objects in Natural History, 

 worthy the notice of zoologists. The stores I now possess 

 will occupy the Proceedings in the various branches of Zoo- 

 logy, for many years to come. — H. Cuming. — Manila, Nov. 

 18, 1838. 



Lycopodium inundatum grows within a hundred yards of 

 the railway station on Woking Common. — George Luxford, 

 A.L.S., ^c.— London, July 11, 1839. 



