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Titrtonis, Turton, by the author. With two of M. Crosse's 

 objections we quite agree. No one should give his own name to 

 a species, even under the pretext that it is so called in comj^liment 

 to a member of his family, or tD a nam2sake, and ths shell, if 

 named after Mrs. Turton, should have been Turton(T, l)ut we 

 differ from him as to the use of the third declension. If a French 

 Conchologist had the good fortune to bear the name of Cice'ron, 

 or the ill-luck to be named Ne'ron, would M. Crosse in dedicating 

 a shell to him call it Ciceroni or Neroni ? Such a solecism would 

 be enough to make the former of those men rise from his grave. 

 In our opinion too great severity should not be exercised on this 

 point of latinizing names, as we know that the Romans by no 

 means always latinized " barbarous" names by merely tacking an 

 " us," or an " a" to the end of them. The original of Caractacus for 

 instance, was not Caractac but Caradoc, and we may be pretty 

 certain that Boadicea's Celtic designation differed a good deal 

 from " Boadice." 



Fischer, Dr. P. — Faune malacologique de la vallee de Ca'ut- 

 erets, — additions et corrections (Malacological fauna of the Valley 

 of Cauterets — additions and corrections), pp. 49 — 56. 



A supplement to the article at pp. 51, et se j. of the last volume. 

 The slug there called Amalia margiimta^ Drap., is now described 

 as a new species, Limax altilis. Fischer, a curious hairy variety of 

 H. Moii/insi, Farines, is described (van acrotricha, Fisch.,) and 

 the occurrence of Hydrobia Reyniesi, Dup., var. canaliculata in a 

 stream at a altitude of 1350 metres is noted. 



Fischer, Dr. P. — Note sur le Capulus Shreevei, Conrad, 

 (Note on C. Sliicevei,) pp. 57. 



This supposed Capuhis, from South Carolina, turns out to be 

 an ossicle of PJioIas. 



