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elles at the larger end , the length of the complete tube , as originally ob- 

 tained, being 5 feet ; the specimens were found by him on the reef at Mboli, 

 Florida Island, Solomon Islands, in 1865. — In reply to a remark made by 

 Mr. Hedley at last Meeting as to the occurrence of Patella hermadecensis at 

 Raoul or Sunday Island, Mr. Brazier said that he was still of the opinion 

 that the correct habitat of the species was South Africa , not the Kermadec 

 Islands. 



August 29th, 1894. — Mr. Brazier, who had previously recorded the 

 occurrence of pearls in Trigonia Lamar cki , and CJiione callophylla , Phillipi, 

 exhibited a double withe pearl taken from Tapes turgida^ Lam., at Goonamatta 

 Bay, Port Hacking ; a small black pearl taken from Ostrea cuculiata^ Born, found 

 at the Bottle and Glass Rocks, Vaucluse, Port Jackson ; three specimens ta- 

 ken from Ostrea suhtrigona,^ovih. (sometimes called drift oysters by the oyster 

 dealers, as they sometimes are when heavy freshes come down the rivers and 

 dislodge them from the shallow beds ; but it is a mere variety of 0. cuculiata, 

 Born). — Mr. Brazier stated also that a large quantity of Ostrea cuculiata^ 

 taken off the rocks on the sea coast and placed in one of our southern lakes, 

 had developed into the fine large variety O. suhtrigona. — Mr. Brazier also 

 exhibited a pale brownish sinistral variety of the introduced Helix similaris, 

 Fér., found among some hundred specimens of the dextral form in Mr. J. 

 A. Thorpe's garden at Paddington ; white sinistral varieties of Marginella De 

 Burghiae , A. Ad., and Marginella capensis , Dunker; a sinistral variety of 

 Marginella apicina, Menke, from the Bahamas, West Indies; and a sinistral 

 vaxieiy 0Ï Columbella [Atilia] filosa, Angas, from the Sow and Pigs Reefs, 

 Port Jackson, 4 fathoms. Also, examples oi Stilifer tumida, Petterd , found 

 by Mr. T. P. Hitchcock in beach shingle, half a mile north of Wollongong, 

 in January, 1892. Originally described from North Tasmania, the same 

 species has been found by Mrs. Kenyon at Flinders, Victoria, so that it has 

 a wide range along the South -East Coast of Australia. — Mr. Edgar R. 

 Waite exhibited two species of Molluscs [Potamides ebeninum , Brug., and 

 Area trapezia, Desh.) , respectively known as »whelk« and »cockle« , which 

 are to be seen exposed for sale in quantity at the Central Fish Market. The 

 whelk is cooked before being eaten, but according to the fishermen the cockle 

 is eaten both cooked and raw, though opinion is divided as to its value as a 

 comestible. Both species are also used for bait. 



III. Personal - Notizen. 



Columbia, Miss., U.S.A. Mr. Howard Ayres has changed from the 

 Milwaukee Lake Laboratory and is now Professor of Biology and Curator 

 of the Museum in the University of Missouri.. 



Necroiog.; 



Am 19. April starb in Groß-Lichterfelde bei Berlin Ed. G. Honrath 

 (geb. 11. August 1837 in Coblenz), der bekannte Lepidopterolog. 



Am 14. September endete in Hamburg durch Selbstmord Prof. Dr. Karl 

 Martin Paul Albrecht (geb. daselbst 1851), bekannt durch zahlreiche Ar- 

 beiten über Wirbelthiermorphologie. 



Am 23. October starb in Rom Francesco Gasco, Professor der ver- 

 gleichenden Anatomie an der Universität. 



Druck von üreitkopf Ä Hârtel in Leipzig. 



