REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 1S 
DALL, WILLIAM HrALEy—Continued. Dat, WILLIAM HEALEY—Continued. 
the National Museum: Pleuroto- 
mella simplicissima; Buccinum ze- 
lotes, B. opisoplectum, B. niponense, 
B. cnismatum, B. diplodetum, B. 
epistomium, B. sigmatopleura, B. 
polium, B. edematum, B. acutispir- 
atum, B. surugonum, B. kadiakense, 
B. aniwanum, B. sakhalinense, B. 
ectomocyma, B. bombycinum,  B. 
limnoideum, B. simulatum, B. buli- 
muloideum, B. rossicum, B. pemphi- 
gus, B. orotundum, B. fucanum, and 
B. eugrammatum; Chrysodomus in- 
sularis var. constrictus, C. varici- 
ferus, C. parallelus, C. adelphicus, C. 
oncodes, C. eulimatus, CC. trochoid- 
eus, G. (Ancistrolepis) damon, 
C. (A) grammatus; Tritonofusus 
calamaus,. T. esychus, TT.  (Plici- 
fusus) polypleuratus, A (PY 
elwodes, T. (P) rhyssus, T. (P) 
aurantius, T. (P) croceus, T. (P) 
kroyeri, var.; Mohnia miera, IM. 
sordida, M. clarki; Volutopsius mid- 
dendorffii var. emphaticus, V. 
nicotti var. incisus, V. limatus, V. 
simpler, V. harpa var. derius; Lio- 
mesus bistriatus; Boreotrophon ele- 
gantulus; Metula elongata; Galeo- 
dea leucodoma; Astraea persica; 
Basilissa babelica; Microgaza_ ful- 
gens; Cocculina japonica; Dental- 
ium crocinum; Nucula mirifica; Pee- 
ten (Chlamys) erythrocomatus ; Cre- 
nella grisea; OC. diaphana; Modiol- 
aria impressa; Liocyma aniwana; 
Pholadomya pacifica. 
Certain new terms for indicating 
in a diagnosis the direction of 
sculpture, are also proposed, p. 141. 
Linnaeus as a zoologist. 
Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 1x, July 
31,1907, pp. 272-274. 
An address before the commemo- 
rative meeting of the academy in 
honor of the bicentennial of Lin- 
naeus. 
—— On the synonymic history of 
the genera, Clava Martyn, and Ceri- 
thium Bruguiére. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
Sept., 1907, pp. 363-369. 
A discussion of the history of 
these generic names with the correc- 
tion of a number of published er- 
rors. 
Supplementary notes on Mar- 
tyn’s Universal Conchologist. 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
No. 1565, Oct. 23, 
185-192, one fig. 
These notes give an account of the 
names proposed by Martyn in his 
EKKITI, 
1907, pp. 
ken- 
—— Memoranda 
third and fourth volumes, from a 
copy in the library of the Austra- 
lian Museum at Sydney, and finally 
prove that the four parts of the 
work were issued in 1784, 1784, 
1786, and 1787. It is also shown 
that the text of Chenu’s so-called 
reprint is innaccurate and not to be 
relied upon. 
On a Cymatium 
Californian fauna. 
Nautilus, xx1, No. 8, Dec., 1907, 
pp. 85, 86. 
Describes a specimen of a new 
variety, tremperi, of Cymatium cor- 
rugatun Lamarck, collected by Dr. 
R. H. Tremper near San Pedro, Cal., 
the species being previously known 
only as a member of the Mediterra- 
nean fauna. 
new to the 
Notes. 
Nautilus, xxt, No. 8, Dec., 1907, 
pp. 90, 91. 
These notes relate 
magnificus Pilsbry, which is blind 
when adult; to a reversed IMargi- 
nella apicina in the National Mu- 
seum; and to discovery of Jlyanassa 
obsoleta Say, alive on oyster beds 
on the shores of San Francisco Bay, 
where Ostrea virginica had been 
“planted,” doubtless imported from 
the East with ‘* seed’ oysters. 
to Planorbis 
of suggestions for 
the organization of an American 
Conchological «xssociation or society. 
Nautilus, Xx1, No. 8, Dee., 1907, 
pp. 94-96. 
This is practically the report of a 
committee to consider the formation 
of such a society, appointed at the 
International Zoological -Congress of 
1907, by those members interested 
in the subject. 
Note on Gonidea angulata Lea, 
a fresh-water bivalve, with descrip- 
tion of a new variety. 
Smithsonian Mise. 
Quar. issue, Pt. 
Jan. 28, 1908, pp. 499, 500. 
Describes the variety haroldiana 
Dall, from Santa Clara County, Cal. 
Colls., UL 
4, No. 1784, 
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Anew species of Cavolina, with 
notes on other Pteropoda. 
Smithsonian Mise. Colls., L, 
Quar. issue, Pt. 4, No. 1785, 
Jan. 28, 1908, pp. 501, 502. 
Cavolina couthouyi Dall, from the 
South Pacific is described; the new 
name Clio antarctica is proposed for 
the preoccupied C. australis D’Or- 
bigny, and notes are given on a num- 
ber of other Pacific Pteropods. 
