20 EDITOR S NOTES. 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



J.fohnson], C. W. — In Memoriam — Robert Walton. Naut., 1893, vol. vii., 

 pp. 90-1. 



Shone, Wm. — George Wm. Shrubsole, F.G.S. Nat., 1893, pp. 336-40, and 

 portrait. 



Winkley, Henry W.— Charles B. Fuller (obit.) Naut., 1893, vol. vii., p. 58. 



EDITOR'S NOTES. 



We extend a very hearty welcome to the " Proceedings of the Malacological 

 .Society of London," the first part of which consists of thirty pages of letter-press, 

 two plates, and thirteen woodcuts. 



We believe it is the intention of the Council to issue at least four such parts per 

 year, which alone are well worth the small subscription the society asks. No 

 working malacologist can afford to be without such a publication, and Editor, 

 Secretary, and Publication Committee may indeed feel proud of their first effort. 



We have received from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 U.S.A., a copy of an address to the various scientific bodies with which it is in 

 connection, requesting the same to memorialise their respective governments in 

 favour of allowing objects of natural history to travel through the post at the same 

 rates of postage as samples of merchandise. 



All students of the Mollusca will be pleased to learn that Dr. Pelseneer's new 

 work {"Introduction a F Etude des Mollusques ") is now almost ready. It will be 

 published by M. Lamertin, of Brussels, in 1 vol., 8vo., 146 figs., price 6 fr. 



We much regret to hear that our contemporary, the Midland Naturalist has 

 ceased to exist. At the same time we welcome what promises to be a practical 

 and interesting paper, the Journal of Marine Zoology, a plainly-worded biological 

 quarterly, edited by Mr. James Hornell, of the Jersey Marine Biological Station. 



Mr. Arthur Willey, B.Sc, has been elected to the Balfour Scholarship of 

 Cambridge University, and will proceed to New Ireland to investigate the early 

 development of Nautilus ponipilius. 



Mr. Charles Ashford, of Christchurch, Hants, died suddenly on January 31st, 

 in his 66th year. Mr. Ashford was a skilled dissector of the Mollusca, and there 

 are few, if any, of the British Land and Freshwater Mollusca whose anatomy he 

 was not acquainted with. One of his best known papers is that on the Anatomy 

 of the Darts and Dart-saes of the Helicidce. 



Mr. Hugh Fulton has just acquired a very fine specimen of the extremely rare 

 Pleurotomaria beyrichii, Hilgendorf, from Japan. This makes the sixth specimen 

 known of that species (three of which are very imperfect), and the sixteenth recent 

 specimen of the genus. 



