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the former. But there is no need of such a choice here, for both 
quality and accurate data abound, as well as quantity, giving all that 
the most thorough student might require. 
The purchase was made by the Ohio State University, principally 
for the shells, to place them in the room for the department of 
zoology, and the fossils were a secondary consideration, but when 
Dr. Orton saw the fine number of specimens that were to be added 
to the university collection as new species, as well as the great num- 
ber of desirable duplicates, enabling numerous exchanges, he was 
forced to remark, “ Oh this makes us rich. This is material that 
we had not counted upon.” The assistant geologist has been busy 
until the present time on the Lower Silurian specimens alone, or 
only those found in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and in working over 
them and cataloguing them for the museum he has entered over one 
hundred species from that locality alone that had not formerly ap- 
peared in the University collection. Of the Devonian fossils, found 
near Columbus, there is an immense number; especially are the 
fossil corals very fine and nicely cleaned, but it yet remains for 
work in the near future to tell how many specimens may be found 
among them that are new to the museum collection. 
There is the most complete set of carboniferous specimens, from 
Carbon Hill, Hocking County, O., that the world knows. It was 
in this locality that Mr. Moores did most of his field work in pale- 
ontology and made some of his most valuable discoveries. 
But the part of the collection with which Mr. Moores has more 
recently done his entire scientific work is to be found now in the de- 
partment of zoology. All possible varieties of shells from all over 
the world have been collected, labelled and arranged by this inde- 
fatigable naturalist. These specimens vary from the beautiful pink 
and green radiating “sun shell” of the Atlantic coast to the plain 
and lowly house of our ordinary, slowly plodding snail, or from the 
thick, glossy and bright colored shell of the tropical region to that 
of the more sombre hue of the arctics. 
We are indebted to the kindness of his daughter, Mrs. A. S. 
Humphreys, for greater part of the above information.—C, W. J. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
PLANORBIS NAUTILEUS L.—Referring to Mr. Walker’s interest- 
ing notes on this species in the February number of Tar Nauriivs, 
I may say that a few were taken at Hamilton, Ontario, in 1889. In 
