AMEEIOAN 



JOURNAL OF C0NCH0L0GY. 



NEW SERIES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 



Vol. VII. 1871-72. Part 3. 



Meeting Oct. 5th, 1871. 



Six members present. 



Dr. Ruschenberger, Director, in the Chair. 



Several donations to the Museum and Library were announced. 



The following papers were offered for publication in the Jour- 

 nal : 



"Notes on the Lingual Dentition and Jaws of Terrestrial 

 Mollusca, No. 3." By W. G. Binney and Thomas Bland. 



" Note on Gadinia." By W. H. Dall. 



" Notices and Reviews of New Conchological Works." Bv 

 Geo. W. Tryon, Jr. 



The deaths of Wm. Harper Pease, of Honolulu, and Petit de 

 la Saussaye, of Bordeaux, Correspondents, and Charles W. 

 Peale, Member of the Conchological Section, were announced. 



A letter was read from Wm. M. Gabb, of St. Domingo, 

 stating that twenty-four of the Littorinae collected by him were 

 still living in his cabinet, although eleven and a half months had 

 elapsed since they were removed from the water. 



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