NO. l8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF R. E. C. STEARNS 3 



numerous scientific societies at home and abroad, and of the Sons 

 of the American RevoUition. 



Dr. Stearns was a man of sanguine temperament, with a Hvely 

 sense of humor and high moral character. His reading was wide, 

 his learning never obtrusive, his interest in art, literature and all 

 good causes, intense. He was a staimch friend and, for a righteous 

 object, ever ready to sacrifice his own material interests. His 

 services to Californian science will keep his memory green. 



n. LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS BY ROBERT 

 EDWARDS CARTER STEARNS, Ph.D. 



Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science; in 1869, chosen Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Chicago Academy of Science; 1870, Corresponding Member 

 Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York, now the New York Academy of 

 Science; September 17, 1873, elected Corresponding Member of Die Kaiserlich Konigliche 

 Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Wien, Austria; 1877, Corresponding Member of 

 Academy of Natural Science, Davenport, Iowa; 1887, Correspondent of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. 



CONCHOLOGY 



1. List of Shells collected at Baulines Bay, California, June, 1866. — Proc. 

 California Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1866, pp. 275-276. (C. M. I.') Additions 

 to this list, ibid., p. 291, 1867. (C. M. II.) 



2. List of Shells collected at Santa Barbara and San Diego by Mr. J. Hep- 

 burn, in February-March, 1866, with Remarks upon some of the species. — 

 Proc. California Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1866, pp. 283-286. (C. M. I.) 



3. Remarkable Instance of Vitality in a Snail, Helix veatchii. — Proc. Cali- 

 fornia Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1867, pp. 328-329. 



4. Shells collected at Santa Barbara by W. Newcomb, M. D., in January, 

 1867.— Proc. California Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1867, pp. 343-3-lS- (C. M. II.) 



5. List of Shells collected at Purissima and Lobitas, California, October, 

 1866.— Proc. California Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1867, pp. 345-346- (C. M. II.) 



6. List of Shells collected at Bodega Bay, California, in June, 1867.— Proc. 

 California Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1867, Pp. 382-383. (C. M. III.) 



7. Shells collected by the U. S. Coast Survey Expedition to Alaska in the 

 Year 1867.— Proc. California Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 3, 1867, pp. 384-385- 

 (C. M. III.) 



Also in Report of the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey, for 1867, Appendix 

 No. 18, pp. 291-2; Harford's List, which contains numerous typographical errors, which 

 were not in the original. 



1 This and a number of the following papers were also issued under the title " Con- 

 chological Memoranda " by Doctor Stearns and will be referred to as " C. M." in the 

 subsequent annotations. Since the dates of the memoranda were often prior to the pub- 

 lication in serials, it is important that they should be noted, and they are as follows: 

 I, July 16, 1866; II, August 20, 1866; III, December 2, 1867; IV, 1869; V, 1870; VI, 

 May 18, 1871; VII, Aug. 28, 1871; VIII, Oct. 14, 1871;- IX, Sept. 4, 1871; X, June 5, 

 1872; XI, Jan. 17. 1873; XII. April 7, 1873: XIII, Oct. 18, 1875. 



