24 EDITOR S NOTES. 



reference much easier. Further the full titles of Palseontological papers are given 

 and the new Fossil genera and sub-genera are noticed in the systematic portion. If 

 in future volumes the year of publication of various papers, etc., were given, in 

 addition to the volume, it would greatly add to the value of the work which has 

 been well and carefully done, and must, as hitherto, prove of the greatest value to 

 every student of the Mollusca. 



EDITOR'S NOTES. 



It has been suggested to us that the addition of an American Malacologist to our 

 list of Editorial colleagues would be very agreeable to workers in the United States. 

 We need scarcely say we should heartily welcome the addition. 



During the past year an active and vigorous society has been founded in Bir- 

 mingham, under the title of " The Midland Malacological Society," full particulars 

 of which will be found in its " Proceedings," published in the present number of 

 this Journal. 



There are now in Great Britain three distinct societies devoted to the study of 

 the Mollusca. The first, "The Conchological Society," founded in 1S76, with 

 its head-quarters first at Leeds, and now at Manchester, has branches at Leeds and 

 London, and publishes its " Proceedings" in the "Journal of Conchology." 



"The Malacological .Society of London," founded in 1893, has rapidly risen to 

 he one of the most important and successful of the Learned Societies. Its admirable 

 " Proceedings," and the general success which has attended it, being very largely 

 due to the untiring and devoted eftbrts of Messrs. B. B. Woodward and E. R. 

 Sykes. 



"The Midland Malacological Society," which has just completed its first year 

 of existence, bids fair to become a strong provincial society. Its "Proceedings" 

 will be published in this Journal. 



It is to be sincerely hoped that these societies and their various branches may all 

 work together amicably, and that no spirit of unfriendliness or little-minded 

 jealousy may ever be fostered. Each has its own sjjhere of usefulness and tends to 

 increase and diffuse our knowledge of the Mollusca. 



Some little time ago Mr. John Grant, the well known publisher of Edinburgh, 

 offered to reprint a limited number of copies of volume I of this Journal in demy 

 octavo, in order that the set of volumes should be uniform in size. To this generous 

 proposal we readily agreed, and we have now great pleasure in directing attention 

 to the fact. 



Mr. Grant has the whole of the remainder of all the published parts from 

 volume I (1891) to volume \T (1897). The number of these complete sets is 

 limited and will, no doubt, be eagerly sought after by Librarians and others. 



We regret to have to record the death of Felix Bernard, at the early age of 35. 

 Bernard was well known to all students of the Mollusca by his series of papers on 

 the hinge of bivalved molluscs. By his decease the Paris Museum loses a zoologist 

 of great promise. 



At a meeting of the Midland Malacological Society, held on November nth, 

 1898, Professor W. C. MTntosh, M.U., LL.D, , F.R..S., Mr. Edg.ir A.Smith, F.Z.S., 

 and Professor Ileinrich Simroth. were, on the unanimous recommendation of the 

 Council, elected Honorary Members of the Society. 



