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EDITOR'S NOTES. 



The Manchester Museum has recently received by presentation from Surgeon 

 Colonel S. Archer, a beautiful specimen of Phurotomaria adansoniana, Cr. and 

 Fisch., obtained in Barbados. This is the fifth known specimen of this fine species. 



At the December meeting of the Midland Malacfilogical Society, Professor 

 Ludwig Plate, of Berlin, was elected an Honorary Member. 



From Mr. T. Van Hyning of Des Moiiles, Iowa, U. S. A., we have recently 

 'eceived an interesting Catalogue of recent and fossil Mollusca for sale or exchange. 



The Council of the Zoological Society has given instructions for the publication 

 of an Index-Volume to the new generic names mentioned in the ' Zoological 

 Record,' Vols, xvii — xxxvii (1880 — 1900). 



The Volumes previous to Vol. xvii. have been indexed in the ' Nomenclator 

 Zoologicus' of Scudder, published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1882. The 

 contemplated Index-Volume of the 'Zoological Record,' in order to increase its 

 usefulness, will include names omitted from Scudder's list and from the volumes of 

 the 'Zoological Record.' Thus zoologists may have at their disposal (in the 

 'Nomenclator Zoologicus' and the new Index together) a complete list of all the 

 names of the genera and subgenera used in zoology up to the end of 1900. 



It is earnestly requested that anyone who knows of names omitted from 

 Scudder's 'Nomenclator,' or from the volumes of the 'Zoological Record,' will 

 forward a note of them, together, if possible, with a reference as to where they have 

 been noticed or proposed, so that the new list may be made practically compLle. 

 Such information should be addressed to the Editor of the ' Zoological Record,' 3, 

 Hanover Square, London, W. ; or to C. O. Waterhouse, Esq., British Museum, 

 Natural History, S. Kensington, London, who is engaged in compiling the list. 



A Conchological Exchange Club, with head-quarters at Birmingham, has 

 recently been founded. 



