46 THE NAUTILUS. 



Mr. Cockerell is not responsible for tlie name muscorum as applied 

 to this shell. The first variety, edentala Moq.-Tand., is of course 

 equal to the typical muscorum. 



NOTES AND EXCHANGES. 



The following extract from a letter written to the Ed. by Dr. W. 

 D. Hartman, will be of interest: 



"I have just learned through Mr. Rossiter, of the Island of 

 Noumea, that Mr. de Latour and his son (from whom I have 

 received so many new shells from Aura Island, New Hebrides) have 

 been murdered by natives; JNIr. Garrett was wont to tell me of the 

 great danger to be encountered by these collectors in these islands 

 from the natives. When he was collecting in some of these islands 

 he was obliged to be a walking arsenal and would never trust a 

 native behind his back for fear of being stabbed and dragged off 

 into the bushes and eaten. 



I much regret the loss of de Latour as a collector. The last box 

 he collected was lost in a vessel that was wrecked, and after float- 

 ing about on the ocean was wafted to shore, and Avas found and 

 sent to Mr. Rossiter." 



Some of the shells contained in this box were figured in Dr. 

 Hartman's la.st paper in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. — Ed. 



Wanted. — Atlantic and Gulf Coast Shells in exchange for land 

 and fresh-water shells of the Mississippi Valley. — Elwood Pleas, 

 Dimre ifh, India na . 



We learn that our valued correspondent, Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 has been appointed Director of the Natural History ]\Iuseum at 

 Kingston, Jamaica. Mr. Cockerell has many warm friends among 

 the conchological fraternity of America, who will be glad to hear 

 that he has been called to a field so rich for the Naturalist. — Ed. 



Correspondence invited, with view to exchange of Conchological 

 specimens. Desiderata : Florida, Texas, California and West Indian 

 land shells. Offers : British, European and South African land, 

 fresh-water and marine. — C. L. Smout, 40 Brayhrook Road, Hast- 

 ings, England. 



