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THE CONCHOLOGIST. 



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A Quarterly Magazine for Conchologists. 



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W. E. COLLINGE, io8, Woodsley Road, Leeds. 



June 24111, 1891. 

 §6ifor's '^otes. 



In presenting to our readers the second 

 number of The Conchologist we take the 

 opportunity of thanking them and the Press 

 for the support received at their hands. 

 For the many flattering notices given us by 

 the latter, and the unanimous expression of 

 approval from the former, we are much 

 indebted. 



We have received during the past quarter 

 a number of local lists of land and fresh- 

 water shells, which, if printed, would occupy 

 nearly three numbers of our paper. Really 

 good county lists may have a value, but 

 compilations of the Mollusca to be found 

 around every town and village are useless, 

 or almost so. They certainly have no 

 scientific value. To those gentlemen who 

 have been good enough to forward these 

 lists we have ex|)lained, in more detail, our 

 views upon the matter, which, we are pleased 

 to learn, they share. For obvious reasons 

 we shall publish no further lists. 



Mr. T. D. a. Cockerell has lately been 

 appointed Curator of the Museum of the 



Institute of Jamaica. Few conchologists, in 

 recent years, have done so much to further 

 the interests of Conchology, and added so 

 largely to our knowledge of the Mollusca, as 

 has Mr. Cockerell. His valuable assistance 

 has always been most generously placed at 

 the disposal of his numerous correspondents, 

 and many — ourselves not the least — will feel 

 the loss occasioned by his removal. 



A List of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca 

 of Suffolk, compiled by the Rev. Carleton 

 Green, M.A., will shortly be issued by the 

 Suffolk Institute of Natural History and 

 Archaeology. 



* 

 The variety minor, Taylor, of Lim/ieea palus- 

 tris, which some little time ago was re-named 

 nana by Mr. Cockerell — owing to the term 

 minor having been previously used by Locard 

 for a rather different variety than that of 

 Mr. Taylor's — seems to be identical with 

 Baudon's variety minima, by which term it 

 will for the future be known. (See Biblio. 

 Brit. Naf.) 



In the Proceedings of the Conchological 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 

 April, we notice a note, headed " Photo- 

 graphs and Autographs of Conchologists," 

 explaining that the Council would " be glad 

 to receive photographs of all members of 

 the Society, and conchologists generally, 

 whether living or deceased ; and if members 

 or friends were disposed to present suitable 

 albums, an additional obligation would be 

 conferred. Examples of the autographs of 

 all who have in any way contributed to the 

 advancement of Conchological science are 

 also desired." The collecting of photo- 

 graphs and autographs is hardly likely, we 

 think, to add to the Society's prestige as 

 a scientific body, or to its utility. 



