THE NAUTILUS. 107 
species, are recognized. In the Introduction a historical sketch 
is given, and an interesting account of the geographic distribu- 
tion.—H. A. P. 
Notes ON A COLLECTION OF SHELLS FROM TRINIDAD, CALI- 
FoRNIA. By Eric Knight Jordan (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 
58, pp. 1-5). Two new species of Odostomia, O. euglypta and 
O. edmondi, are described. 
A New FresHwater Mo.uiusk From Inpiana. By Bryant 
Walker (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 57, p. 525). Ferrissia 
bartschi, from Lake Maxinkuckee. 
NOTES. 
TAPES PHILIPPINARUM IN THE HawallANn Istanps. My infor- 
mation concerning Tapes philippinarum differs much from 
Bryan’s in Navutitus, XXXII, p. 124. A Japanese now living 
in Honolulu has twice planted this bivalve on the mud flats at 
Moanalua on Oahu. The first planting did not survive long; 
the second maintained itself in fine shape up to the present day, 
when they are abundant enough to be gathered and put on sale 
in the markets. They are frequently imported from Japan to 
Honolulu by the barrel for sale among the Japanese. I send 
you some of these imported shells.—D. THAanum. 
M. Eugene AusourG DE Boury died on April 17, in France, 
at the age of sixty-three years. A correspondent writes that 
M. de Boury, though a long-time invalid, had devoted himself 
with ardor to the study and collection of mollusks of the genus 
Scalaria. He gathered in the last ten years an extraordinary 
collection of these beautiful and rare shells for the Paris Museum 
of Natural History, increasing their series from 300 sets to 3000, 
exclusive of photographs and illustrations of inaccessible species 
to the number of 1800 more. This series far surpasses any 
other extant. He published numerous papers on the genus and 
indicated many new subdivisions of it, but the great monograph 
which was his ideal must remain for other hands to prepare.— 
(Science. ) 
