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I was struck with the very evident differences between it and the 

 albolabris among which I had placed it. The latter all have but 

 little over five whorls, with aperture somewhat contracted by being 

 flattened toward the plane of the base. This shell has the globose 

 form, the rounded aperture, the swollen last whorl, elevated spire, 

 nearly six whorls and all the characteristics of Mesodon Andrewsi. 



I have before me a specimen received from Mr. Binney with his 

 label showing that it was one of the original lot from which 

 Andrewsi was named. The Missouri shell does not materially 

 differ from it in any respect. It is very slightly larger than the 

 North Carolina shell, but not so large or solid as Andreivsi from 

 Talula Falls, Georgia, also received from Mr. Binney. 



H. Andrexvsi is a species of the Cumberland subregion, but other 

 species of that region extend to Missouri, as for instance Stenotrema 

 lahrosum Bid., and I have no doubt of the correctness of my identi- 

 fication, though it makes an unexjjected extension of the habitat of 

 this species. 



A VISIT TO WARD'S. 



One stormy night in November the Editors and Manager of 

 The Nautilus, and their friend the Vice-President of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Conchologists, found themselves en route for 

 Rochester, N. Y., via the famous Lehigh Valley route. The object 

 of their pilgrimage was to see the largest Natural History Establish- 

 ment of its kind in America, — Peof. Ward's. Dawn of the next 

 day found us still far from our journey's end, near Ithaca, and in 

 sight of the classic walls of Cornell College, where Newcomb 

 labored so many years. Fi'om here, we rode for miles along the 

 beautiful shores of Cayuga Lake, lying like some shining serpent 

 between its dark Devonian and Silurian cliffs. Then breakfast at 

 Seneca ; and finally Rochester was reached where we were hospitably 

 received by Prof Ward, and by his able assistants Messrs. Crump, 

 DeLaney, Baker and Walton. After the usual amount of talk 

 incident upon the meeting of a half-dozen lovers of shells, we started 

 on a tour of inspection, an account of which I will give in the words 

 of one of our number, 



" Here is a grand treat, not only for the lover of nature but also 

 ofart,forthe preparation ofobjects of natural history (where accuracy 



