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parative Anatomy, in the Royal University of Turin; while here 
he worked up the mollusks collected by DE Finippe during the cir- 
cumnavigation of the Royal Frigate, ‘Magenta. In 1873, 
Tapparone began the series of articles upon Oriental land mollusks 
collected by O. Beccarr and L. M. D’AuBerris in New Guinea 
and adjacent regions; and it is to this series of papers that his 
reputation is chiefly due. 
After a residence of eight years in Turin, Prof. Tapparone went 
abroad for the purpose of studying the mollusks of foreign 
museums. He visited the British Museum, the Zoological Museum 
of Berlin, ete., and finally spent some time in study under SEMPER 
at Wiirzburg. Returning to Italy, he went to Genoa, where he 
devoted himself to the mollusk collection of the Civic Museum. 
Shortly after, a disease of the circulation and nerves manifested 
itself, and despite the tenderest care of wife and friends, it proved 
fatal. 
His collection and library have been given to the Civic Museum 
of Genoa, by his wife. 
All students of land shells will regret the death of so conscien- 
tious and able a malacologist ; and particularly will his loss be felt 
by those who have profited by his “ Fauna Malacologica della Nuova 
Guinea,” and the other essays upon allied faunas. 
A bibliography and full biographical sketch by IssEL, with por- 
trait will be found in the Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Nat- 
urale di Genova, 1892. 
THE UNIO MUDDLE. 
BY PROF. CHAS. LE ROY WHEELER. 
Under the above heading appears an article in the February 
Navurtixus from the pen of Mr. Berlin H. Wright. In a recent 
number, also, appeared an article from Mr. John H. Campbell sug- 
gesting that the Uniologists connected with the American Associa- 
tion of Conchologists meet at Chicago this summer and settle dis- 
puted points as to priority of description, nomenclature, and syn- 
onymy. Certainly it would be “just too nice for anything” if the 
aforesaid Uniologists could have a little pic-nic at Chicago, pass 
a few resolutions forever settling all disputed points, pat each other 
