Smith : Catalogue of Genus Partui.a. 425 



belonging to the collection of the late Win. If. J\\ise. Bull. Mus. C'onip. 

 Zool., IX, pp. 91-96, 1882. 



Descriptions of New Species of Partula and a Synonymic Catalogue 

 of the genus. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., pp. 203-223, 1885. 



New Species of Partula from the Neio Hebrides and Solomon Islands. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., pp. 30-35, Plate II, 1886. 



Ne7v Species of Shells from the N'ew Hebrides and Sandwich Islands. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., p. 250, Plate XTII, 1888 (includes 

 several Partulas). 



Descriptions of New Species of Shells. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 

 Phila., pp. 284-288, plate III, 1890 (includes a species of Partula). 



Catalogue of the Genus Partula, "The Nautilus," vol. VI, pp. 73 

 and 97, 1892—93. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. H. A. Pilshry, of the Academy of 

 Natural Science, Philadelphia, I have been permitted to examine a 

 MS. work by Dr. Hartman, containing the final results of his studies 

 of Partula, and revised to within a short time of his death. This was 

 originally intended to be a monograph of the genus, but to some ex- 

 tent it is incomplete. In it he corrects errors in his ])revious writings, 

 reconsiders a number of doubtful species, and gives descri])tions of 

 most of the valid ones. 



Dr. Hartman visited luirope in 1883 and personally examined a 

 number of types in London and Paris, besides adding largely to his 

 collection. He had free access to type specimens from the Pease col- 

 lection in the Academy of Natural Science, and the collections, made 

 by the United States Exploring Expedition, in the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, as well as the Pease duplicates, which he studied in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. 



The result of his labors was to bring something like order out of 

 the tangled mass, and for this he deserves the everlasting gratitude of 

 conchologists. Put there are still many doubtfiil ])oints. 



The main ol)ject of the following catalogue is to smooth the way for 

 future monographers of the genus. I have rigidly abstained from ex- 

 pressing opinions, and have made only a itw suggestions. In the ca.se 

 of doubtful species or habitats, scraps of information are often impor- 

 tant, and a great number of these have been gleaned from the letters of 

 Mr. (iarrett and others. No doubt many of the extracts will be use- 

 less ; but it was not always possible to judge of their value, and I have 

 thought it better to preserve every extract which seemed to throw the 



