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tributor towards its educational and other interests, notably the 

 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Association, the indebtedness of which 

 he greatly reduced and finally cancelled. 



Personally Mr. Prime was a generous friend, ever ready to help 

 any worthy cause with purse or counsel, and he will be greatly 

 missed in the community in which he spent so many years of his life. 



S. Raymond Roberts. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Synopsis of the Family Veneridae and of the North 

 American recent species. By. Wm, H. Dall (Proc. U. S. Natl. 

 Mus. xxvi, 335-412, plates xii-xvi, 1902). 



This synopsis gives in condensed form the results of another of 

 Dr. Ball's elaborate studies on the Pelicypods. The revision of tiie 

 nomenclature involved a great amount of work, necessitating many 

 generic and specific changes. A complete bibliography is given, 

 followed by the synopsis of classification of the genera and sub 

 genera, and a revision of the species with descriptions of twenty new 

 species. 



Dr. Dall divides the Veneridcs into four sub-families: DosiniincE, 

 Meretricina;, Venermce, Gemminse ; represented on the Atlantic coast 

 by 59 species, and on the Pacific by 80 species, two being natives of 

 both oceans. 



From the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States the fol- 

 lowing species are recorded : Dosinia concentrica Born.; D. elegans 

 Con.; D. discus Rve.; Transemiella cubaniana Orb.; T. stimpsoni 

 Dall; T. conradiana Dall ; Goiddia cerlna C. B. Ads. is now placed 

 in the genus Gafrarium Bolten 1798, and MacrocaUista nimhosa 

 Solander 1786, is adopted in place of Calltsta gignntea Gmel. 1792 ; 

 M. maculata L.; Gallocardia (Agriopoma) morrhiiana Linsley, re- 

 places Cytherea convexa Say (not Brong.), and C. sayana Con., the 

 two latter names were applied to the Miocene form wliicii is con- 

 sidered distinct from the recent. Gallocardia texosiana, Dall ; C. 

 zonata Dall; Pitaria albida Gmel.; P. ftdminata Mke. {Cytherea 

 varians Hanley); P. simpsoni Dall ; P. eucymata Dall, and P. 

 {Hysteroconcha) dione L. The latter is more familiarly known as 

 Dione dione or D. veneris Desh. By elimination the genus Gytherea 

 Bolton 1798 should be restricted to form like G. listeri Gray ( Venus 



