120 THE NAUTILUS. 



cafr?'osa(Say) — 7nultiradiata{Yif:&) — r«n;r/cossa( Barn.) 

 and var. ovata (Say). 

 7. Genus: Truncilla'R'A^} 



Species: triquetra Raf. — perplexa rangiana (Lea). 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, in its regular 

 Zoology work is doing tilings unique with the mollusca. Each 

 pupil is required to make a " cigar box " collection of shells. These 

 are fixed up nicely and covered with glass. The specimens are 

 named on inside of lid and an exhibition takes place to which parents 

 and friends are invited. This year over 200 boxes and 8000 speci- 

 mens were exhibited. 



The students under the direction of Mr. E. E. Hand, the teacher 

 are urged to make a thorough study of their own region and in co- 

 operation with the Agassiz Association are arranging for exchanges 

 with high schools and individual collectors all over the world. Any- 

 one interested is invited to correspond. — E. E. Hand. 



It is with sorrow we record the death of Mr. John Ford, at his 

 home in Philadelphia, on January 10, 1910. An obituary will ap- 

 pear in March number. 



We also regret to announce the death of Dr. John H. Britts of 

 Clinton, Missouri, which occurred November 14, 1909. 



Lymncea cubensis aspirans, n. subsp. The shell differs from L. 

 cubensis by its much longer spire of very convex whorls. Length 

 12, diam. 6, lengtli of aperture 6 mm.; whorls 6. Barbadoes. Types 

 No. 85455 A. N. S. P. This is not Limnaa harbadensis Sowerby, 

 Conch. Icon., xviii, pi. 14, f. 100. I have seen no Antillean species 

 resembling: that figure. — H. A. Pilsbry. 



We learn with regret of the death of Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri, the 

 eminent Japanese zoologist, on September 16. 



'Shell characters peculiar, and also mantle edge, and in some respects also 

 the marsupium. The two species differ considerably, and the two subgenera 

 of Simpson {Trunrilla and Piled) should perhaps be elevated to the rank 

 of genera. 



