CHEMNITZIA. 443 
Taken at Exmouth from a shelly bottom, six miles from 
shore, in 12 fathoms water. It has hitherto escaped the 
researches of authors. 
I have thought the “obliqua,’ if not a variety of the 
C.. Warrenii (the C. decorata of authors), a doubtful species, 
but the above description certifies its distinctness. 
Cu. Gutsona, Clark. 
Chemnitzia Gulsone, Clark, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., N.S. vi. p. 459. 
Odostomia Gulsone, Brit. Moll. iv. p. 281, pl. 132. f. 6. 
C. testa tenui, levi, anfractibus quinque cylindrico-tumidis, sub- 
obliquis. Apertura elongato-ovalis, peripheria integra, tenui, 
paululum reflexa, ad externum labium leviter constricta. Sutura 
simplex. Apex rotundato-obtusus, subreflexus. Color albus, vel 
pallide luteus. Axis 3;, diameter 3, unciz. 
Habitat propeostia Iscaee Damnoniorum. 
A minute and elegant species, which appears unaccountably 
not to have been noticed, until described by me in the 
‘Annals.’ I ascertained that it was unpublished, having even 
escaped the attention of the learned authors of the ‘ British 
Mollusca.’ Under these circumstances I considered it a para- 
mount duty, as a faithful knight of this branch of natural 
history, to fly to the rescue ; and I hope, by the aid of my good 
lance, to convert the undeserved neglect of this rare object 
ito an imperishable renown, by giving it, for a specific appel- 
lation, the name of a lady at Exmouth, who has devoted her 
leisure to the cultivation of natural history, and by her illus- 
trations and discoveries in the departments of algology and 
conchology, has done much to promote the advancement of 
science. May more of our fair countrywomen follow her 
example! These pursuits not only delight and adorn their 
votaries, but they add new facts and new discoveries to our 
stock ; and it is only by the exertions of many, distributed over 
the face of the land, that novelties are brought to our know- 
ledge. The harvest is not yet gathered in, and the lady who 
discovers a new species, gaims an immortality co-extensive 
with the existing order of nature. I refrain from adding to 
