THE NAUTILUS. 47 



GEORGE T. MAESTON. 



We regret to announce the death of oiir friend and correspondent, 

 George Terence Marston. He was born in Chicago, Jan. 31, 1867. 

 When he was five years of age his father died and his widowed 

 mother moved to De Pere, Wisconsin. He attended the public 

 schools and graduated from the high school at the age of fourteen 

 years. He immediately found employment in a bank at De Pere, 

 but was soon called to a position of higher responsibility in a bank at 

 Green Bay. Here his ambition and tempermental intensity of 

 nature led him to overwork, and after a few years he resigned his 

 position and sought to regain his health by a vacation at the seaside. 



He came to Quincy in 1891 and was employed in the bank of the 

 State Savings Loan and Trust Company. His clear mind, industry, 

 mastery of the principles of business and a rare talent for the accurate 

 and systematic management of details, made him a valued and 

 trusted man. 



Though compelled to devote himself to business, his special de- 

 light was in scientific studies, especially conchology. He had col- 

 lected and had in his cabinet specimens of nearly every species found 

 in Wisconsin, and cherished a hope of some day being able to have 

 the time to prepare a work on the mollusks of that State. 



His last work was in photographing the embryological develop- 

 ment of the snail, with some very good results. Among his contri- 

 butions to the Nautilus was an article on the occurrence of Helicina 

 occulta Say, in Brown county. Wis. 



He was married to Helen E. Collins, daughter of W. H. Collins, 

 Oct. 3, 1898, who with two children survives him. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Revieav of the Classification of the Cyrenacea. By 

 William H. Dall. Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., vol. xvi, pp. 5-8, 1903. 



In working over the Cyrenacea for the Memoir on the Tertiary 

 Fossils of Florida, Dr. Dall found the nomenclature and classifica- 

 tion of this super-family in much confusion, and while the details are 



