38 AMERICAN JOURNAL 



" Notes on Dr. James Lewis' paper on the Shells of the 

 Holston River (published in Am. Jour. Conch., VI, part 3) ;" 

 by Geo. W. Try on, Jr. 



Meeting June 1st, 1871. 



Six members present. 



Mr. Tryon, Vice-Director, in the chair. 



The following papers were offered for publication in the Jour- 

 nal : 



" Descriptions of Sixty new forms of Mollusca from the West 

 Coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with Notes 

 on others already described ;" by Win. H. Dall. 



"Notes on the genus Anisothyris, with a Description of a new 

 Species ;" by Wm. H. Dall. 



" Description of a new Species of Monoceros from California, 

 with Remarks on the Distribution of the North American Spe- 

 cies ;" by R. E. C. Stearns. 



" Descriptions of new California Shells ;" by R. E. C. Stearns. 



Extracts were read from a letter received from Mr. Wm. M. 

 Gabb, dated San Domingo, April 15th, 1871, stating that nine- 

 teen of the twenty-two specimens of Littorina collected by him 

 in Sept., 1870. were still living. Dr. F. A. Hassler stated that 

 specimens in his collection, collected by Mr. Gabb, were alive, and 

 in confirmation, exhibited the individuals, which were quite active, 

 although nine months out of water. 



