SMITH: CATALOGUE OF GENUS PARTULA. 485 
Jan. 25, 1875. ‘‘ When I explored the islands for Partu/e, 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 adopted nearly all my provisional names. Carpenter, 
Adams and Cuming compared the shells with those in the Cumingian 
collection, and the former published the result of their determinations 
in the Proc. Zo6l. 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 writes 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 tome. 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 Achatinelle.’’ 
Mr. Garrett died of cancer, at Huaheine, Nov. 1, 1887. With 
the papers there is a sketch of his life with a list of his writings, by 
Rev. E. V. Cooper, of Huaheine, ‘‘ communicated at the special re- 
quest of Mr. Garrett before his decease.”’ 
