Smith : Caialogue of Genls Tartula. 485 



Jan. 25, 1S75. " When I explored the islands for Paitiihc, I kept 

 a daily journal and gave each species, when discovered, a provisional 

 name, and kept the species from each valley separate. After I sold 

 the collection to Mr. Pease I put up nine sets for him to send to Lon- 

 don. He adoi)ted nearly all my provisional names. Carpenter, 

 Adams and Cuming comi)ared the shells with those in the Cumingian 

 collection, and the former published the result of their determinations 

 in the Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864. I reserved a similar set for myself of 

 all except five or six species of which there were no duplicates left 

 after Pease made his selection for his cabinet. Ten years after my 

 first explorations I went over the same localities a second time, so I 

 certainly am pretty well posted on the Partulas of this group. 



" Pease was very careless about localities, as any one can see by 

 studying his papers. He was also careless about his duplicates, which 

 he kept in cigar-boxes ; and, as he once wrote me, his 'little daughter 

 amused herself in arranging (?) his duplicates.' After his death, those 

 who packed his collection to be sent to Boston must have made sad 

 confusion by the admixture of species." 



The last letter from Mr. Garrett is dated June 26, 1887, and in it 

 he w'rites most bravely and touchingly of his own approaching death. 

 "For some time I have been unable to work on my collection, which 

 numbers over 8,000 species and 30,000 examples. It is hard to give 

 them up and join the large majority. I am too weak to write much, 

 so I will thank you over and over again for your kindness to me. I 

 have made arrangements so that you will receive my three papers, now 

 in the hands of the printers. I also hope, before the end comes, to 

 receive yours on the Achatinellte." 



Mr. Garrett died of cancer, at Huaheine, Nov. i, 1887. With 

 the papers there is a sketch of his life \h\h a list of his writings, by 

 Rev. E. V. Cooper, of Huaheine, "communicated at the special re- 

 quest of Mr. Garrett before his decease." 



