22 History of Conchology in the United States. 



Charles B. Adams (deceased 1851) was one of the most in- 

 defatigable and accurate of our Conchologists. His published 

 papers, in thirteen years, amounted to about sixty, containing 

 descriptions of 700 species of shells. 



Of these articles, nine were printed in this Journal, six in the 

 Boston Proceedings and Journal, four in the Proceedings of the 

 American Association, and nine in the New York Lyceum An- 

 nals. The most important are — 



"Descriptions of new species of shells." This Journal, [1], vol. xxxix, 

 1840. 



"Catalogue of the Mollusca of Middlebury, Vt., and vicinity; with ob- 

 servations." This Journal, vol. xl, 1841. 



"Description of twenty-five new species of New England shells." Bost. 

 Proc, ii, 1844-5. This was written in conjunction with Dr. Mighels. 



" Specierum Novarum Conchyliorum in Jamaica repertorum, Synopsis." 

 Bost. Proc, ii, Jan. 1, 1845. 



" Descriptions of new species of marine shells of New England." 

 Bost. Journ., ii, 1840. 



" On the nature and origin of the species of Testaceous Mollusca in the 

 Island of Jamaica." Proc. American Assoc, iv, 1851. 



Descriptions of a great number of Jamaica Shells, in the Lyceum An- 

 nals, 1850-1. 



"Catalogue of shells collected at Panama." Annals Lyceum, 1852; 

 also published separately in a thick 8vo volume. 



" Mollusca," in Thompson's History of Vermont ; also issued in a 

 pamphlet, 20 pp. 



Two small quarto tracts containing monographs of the genera Stoastoma 

 and Vitrinella. 



"Contributions to Conchology." 8vo, 258 pp. Issued in twelve num- 

 bers, from 1849 to 1852. 



The study of the Mollusca of Jamaica occupied Prof. Adams' 

 principal attention, and he was eminently successful in his re- 

 searches among them. 



Prof. Adams described numerous new species among the shells 

 collected by him at Panama. The number of Jamaica shells 

 that he has described is also very large — namely, 260 terrestrial, 

 20 fluviatile, and 200 marine species. 



Prof. Adams also gave much attention to the habits and geo- 

 graphical distribution of these shells, and has illustrated the sub- 

 ject in several able papers. The large collections made by Prof. 

 Adams at Panama and Jamaica, were properly named, and a full 

 series placed in the Cabinet at Amherst College; the remainder 

 were offered for sale by the trustees of the College, on whose 

 account he visited those regions. A very large number of speci- 

 mens were thus distributed among the lovers of the science in 

 America and Europe, so that many private cabinets contain good 

 collections of them. 



