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1851, to tlie United States, by way of Jamaica, where he was 

 the guest of the late Hon. Edward Chitty. 



Between the years 1838 and 1850, a considerable number of 

 Professor Adams' papers relating to Mollnsca* were published 

 in the Proceedings of several Scientific Societies and in va- 

 rious Journals. Most of those papers which embraced the 

 results of his explorations in Jamaica were, from time to time, 

 re-published, with much original matter, in the "Contribu- 

 tions to Conchology," (issued in twelve parts, between October, 

 1849, and November, 1852,) and in Monographs of the genera 

 Stoastoma and Vitrinella. In the autumn of 1852 his '"Cata- 

 logue of Shells Collected at Panama" appeared, and also "Ele- 

 ments of Geology," the latter the joint production of himself 

 and the late Professor Alonzo Gray. The last paper by Pro- 

 fessor Adams was the '■ Catalogue of species of Lucina which 

 inhabit the West Indian Seas," written in November, 1852, 

 and published in the concluding part of the "Contributions." 



Anxious to pursue further investigations in the West Indies, 

 with a view to the completion of a work on the Shells of 

 the Zoological Province, embracing those islands, Professor 

 Adams left for St. Thomas, by way of Bermuda, in December, 



1852. He arrived at St. Thomas on the 27th of that month, 

 and on the next day addressed to the writer of this memoir a 

 letter, from which the following extract will be read with 

 interest : — 



"Had a storm first night out; got to the east end of Ber- 

 muda Saturday evening, and up to town Sunday morning; off 

 Monday noon. • At Bermuda got forty to fifty species of shells, 

 mostly in quantities, — one or two new Pedipes^ two or three new 

 Auriculee, a new Siphonaria^ any quantity of Truncatella, and 

 of the ten or dozen species of land shells, among which is a 

 very small, dirty Succinea, but got only one of Helix Bermu- 

 densis; the large Succinea plenty. Got a new Modulus, a va- 

 riety of Golumhella cribraria, more like the Panama than the 

 West India shell! I forgot about your reply to K.'s letter. 

 That awful nervous headache quite spoiled me in New York. 

 Luckily, I got over it the day before we reached Bermuda. 



" I was perfectly enraptured with Bermuda for scenery and 

 shells. I must have taken three or four thousand specimens, 

 not yet assorted. It will be curious to learn the distribution 

 of the land shells on the different islands. Mr. John H. Eed- 

 field, you and myself must make a special expedition to Ber- 

 muda, have a skiff, and visit them all." 



* For a complete list of these papers, consult "List of American Writers 

 on Recent Conchology," by G. W. Tryon, Jr., N. Y., 1861, and "Biblio- 

 graphy of North American Conchology, (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 

 lections,)" by W. G. Binney, 1863-4. 



