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Tlie mussel also somewhat resembles P. randolphi Roper, from 

 Seattle, Wasliiiigton, but is much mofe oblique, the bealisare larger, 

 and tiie surface strias sire sliirhter. more shallow, ami more distant. 



P. (^furcntuin var.?) rliombicnin. — Mussel smaller, more oblique, 

 rhombic in outlines ; beaks small, color more yellow ; the posterior 

 part of the right cardinal tooth is thin and plain and correspondingly 

 tlie space between tlie two left ones is quite narrow; ligament short 

 and slight. Long. 3, alt. 2.G, diam. 1.8 mm. (the largest specimen). 

 Also probably none of these are full-grown. Hub.: with the preced- 

 ing, in the same lot. Apparently of the same group with P.furcatum, 

 to judgH from the shape; more material will prove whether the two 

 are distinct or forms of one species. 



F. W. BRYANT. 



Mr. F. W. Bryant, of San Diego, Cal., while visiting Hawaii, 

 died of heart failure on October 23, 1912. Born in Ohio about 70 

 years ago, he was an old friend of the late Prof. A. G. Wetherby, 

 with whom he often collected. He described several species of 

 Californian land shells in The Nautilus (vol. XIII, pages 122 

 and li3, 19U0 and Vol. XVI, page 70, 1902). Pyramidula bnjanti 

 Harper, was named in his honor. 



NOTES. 



Lamakck's Collkction ok Shells. — AVe take the liberty of 

 quoting from a letter to one of the editors written by Mr. Charles 

 Iledh^y from Geneva, Oct. 18, '12. "I have just been through 

 Liimarck's types and have been rewarded for my trouble by recover- 

 ing two or three lost species. The Lamarckian collection was as 

 you know bequeatl>ed by Dclessert to the Geneva iMuseum. It is in 

 excellent preservation, kept locked U[) apart from the general collec- 

 tion in four cabinets. The shells are gummed on the usual tablets 

 and in the case of the bivalves the original label in Lamarck's writing 

 is pasted to the umler surface of the tablets. Each tablet has a 

 colored margin to indicate geographical division ; thus Australasia 

 dark blue, Indian ocean yellow. " There is also a copy of the 



