120 THE NAUTILUS. 



fore having been selected as a genotype. (2) This usage has ob- 

 tained currency by numerous authors, wliile the name has never been 

 used in any other sense. (3) Dall (1904) ignores this use of the 

 name, and selects a new type which disagrees wholly with the origi- 

 nal diagnosis, though included by Jeffreys in the original list of 

 species. 



The cases of Jaminia and Alcea are now respectfully submitted for 

 the judgment of conchological and nomenclatorial experts. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



"We regret to announce the death of Rev. E. H. Ashmun, which 

 occurred at San Rafael, California, Dec. 21, 1904. We hope to give 

 a further notice next month. 



Mr. Frederick Price Marrat died at Liverpool, England, on 

 November 7, 1904, at the age of 84. " For more than 40 years Mr. 

 Marrat had been connected with the Liverpool Museum, where he 

 worked in conjunction Vv'ith the late Mr. T. J. Moore and the Rev. 

 H. H. Higgins, a trio of enthusiastic museum workers who con- 

 tributed so greatly to the building up of the magnificent collection in 

 the Liverpool Museum. Mr. Marrat paid special attention to the 

 jreoloo^ical, mineralogical and conchological collections, his most in- 

 timate work being connected with conchology, not only the concho- 

 logical collection in the Liverpool museum being named by him, but 

 also similar collections in various museums, and also in private 

 houses. He was the principal authority on the genus Oliva, of which 

 he acquired a very extensive series, and contributed monographs to 

 Reeve's Conchologica Iconica and to Sowerby's Thesaurus Conchy- 

 liorum, as well as to many periodicals and other publications on the 

 mollusca." — (^Museums Journal, Dec, 1904.) 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Mollusca of South Africa (Pelecypoda). By G. B. 

 Sowerby (From " Marine Investigations in South Africa, Vol. iv). 

 Thirty-three new species are described and figured on two plates. 



