CHEMNITZIA. 443 



Taken at Exmouth from a shelly bottom, six miles from 

 shore, in 12 fathoms water. It has hitherto escaped the 

 researches of authors. 



I have thought the " obliqua" if not a variety of the 

 C. Warrenii (the C. decor at a of authors), a doubtful species, 

 but the above description certifies its distinctness. 



CH. GULSON^E, Clark. 



Chemnitzia Gulsona, Clark, Ann. &Mag. Nat. Hist., N. S. vi. p. 459. 

 Odostomia Gulsorue, Brit. Moll. iv. p. 281, pi. 132. f. 6. 



C. testa tenui, laevi, anfractibus quinque cylindrico-tumidis, sub- 

 obliquis. Apertura elongato-ovalis, peripheria integra, tenui, 

 paululum reflexa, ad externum labium leviter constricta. Sutura 

 simplex. Apex rotundato-obtusus, subreflexus. Color albus, vel 

 pallide luteus. Axis ^, diameter ^ unciae. 



Habitat propeostia Iscae Damnoniomm. 



A minute and elegant species, which appears unaccountably 

 not to have been noticed, until described by me in the 

 ( Annals/ I ascertained that it was unpublished, having even 

 escaped the attention of the learned authors of the ' British 

 Mollusca.' Under these circumstances I considered it a para- 

 mount duty, as a faithful knight of this branch of natural 

 history, to fly to the rescue ; and I hope, by the aid of my good 

 lance, to convert the undeserved neglect of this rare object 

 into an imperishable renown, by giving it, for a specific appel- 

 lation, the name of a lady at Exmouth, who has devoted her 

 leisure to the cultivation of natural history, and by her illus- 

 trations and discoveries in the departments of algology and 

 conchology, has done much to promote the advancement of 

 science. May more of our fair countrywomen follow her 

 example ! These pursuits not only delight and adorn their 

 votaries, but they add new facts and new discoveries to our 

 stock ; and it is only by the exertions of many, distributed over 

 the face of the land, that novelties are brought to our know- 

 ledge. The harvest is not yet gathered in, and the lady who 

 discovers a new species, gains an immortality co-extensive 

 with the existing order of nature. I refrain from adding to 



