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G. W. LICHTENTHALER. 



To-day the news has reached me from California, of the death in 

 San Francisco, February 20th, of George W. Lichtenthaler, late 

 of Bloomington, 111. He was an enthusiastic conchologist, and his 

 name is well known among lovers of shells, throughout the country. 

 Deeply interested from the start in the success of the American 

 Association of Conchologists, he contributed largely to its special 

 American collection. Many of the labels in that collection, especi- 

 ally of West Coast shells, bear his name. But not alone in public 

 was his generosity shown. Many of our younger conchologists can 

 testify to the practical help received from him in the early stages of 

 their study. He was a quiet, unassuming man, and it is fitting that 

 we should express in words the sense of loss which we all feel. 



I first met him in 1878 on the Pacific Coast, where he spent the 

 winter for many years accompanied by his wife, travelling from San 

 Diego to Puget Sound, in search of the forms of marine life Avhich 

 were their special objects of study. His wife died not many years 

 after the period of which I speak, deeply mourned, and since then 

 he has travelled alone. I last saw him in Oakland about a year 

 ago. — Wm. J. Raymond. 



NOTES AND NOTICES. 



Announcement. — Conrad's " Fossil Shells of the Tertiary For- 

 mations of North America" will be republished as soon as 100 sub- 

 scriptions can be obtained at $3.00 each. The republication will 

 consist of No's 1, 2, 3 and 4, of the original edition, 1832-33, and 

 the so-called reprint of No. 3, 1835. The various changes made in 

 the text of each of these parts in different editions will be given in 

 full. Those desiring copies of this work should confer at once 

 with Mr. G. D. Harris, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



The Wagner Free Institute of Science will doubtless republish 

 Conrad's "Medial Tertiary " under somewhat similar conditions. 



Helix nemoralis in Wisconsin. — While in Baraboo, Sauk 

 Co., Wis., last fall, a little boy gave me a handful of Helix shells, that 

 he said he picked up in the summer, while his father was plowing. 

 They were all dead excepting one, which seemed to be of a different 

 species and new to me. Through the kindness of Mr. Bryant 

 Walker, I found the shell to be of the European species. Helix 

 nemoralis Miiller. It was so late in the fall I could not go out and 



