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lawyer, being admitted to the bar in 1856. As a member of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences he was especially interested in 
conchology, his collection being notably rich in Volutide and 
Cypreeidee. 
The Boston Society of Natural History has purchased the Rev. 
J. T. Gulick’s personal collection of Achatinella of the Hawaiian 
Islands. In his annual report, the curator, Prof. Alpheus Hyatt 
says: ‘“‘ This accession makes the Society’s collection the most com- 
plete in existence, if to the list of species and the number of shells 
we also add the facts that it is accurately labelled, contains seventy- 
two originals of the species already described, has a full representa- 
tion of a number of now extinct varieties and species, and was 
collected so many years ago that it can be used in some localities to 
show that new species have arisen upon Oahu within the past ten or 
twenty years. There are at present under this roof about fourteen 
or fifteen thousand shells of this one group, which many naturalists 
consider to be but one genus. These practically all belong to the 
Society, and there are also about six thousand more, the property of 
Mr. Oleson, of Worcester, kindly loaned to the curator for study ; in 
all about twenty thousand shells.”—E. W. R. 
NrwspaPeR ConcHoLocy.—‘ One of the most beautiful shells 
found along our coast is that of a large snail which climbs certain 
trees and grows delicately fat on the young birds. The shell is as 
thin as tissue paper, oddly curved and almost as transparent as the 
finest glass. It belongs to the family of edible snails so prized as a 
delicacy on the coast of France, and if properly prepared makes a 
delicious dish. It is most abundant about New River inlet, where 
the slight shake of a tree about sunset will bring a shower of them 
to the ground. The breakage of a shell seems to be of little trouble 
to the snail—he repairs the damage and moves on.”—Jacksonville 
(Fla.) Citizen. 
The JOURNAL DE CoNCHYLIOLOGIE is to be published hereafter 
under the direction of Messrs. H. Fischer, Ph. Dautzenberg and L. 
Dolfus. We wish the new directors success equal to that enjoyed 
or so many years by the late directors, Crosse and Fischer. 
