138 OBITUARY. 



Province." Journ. Ceylon Asiat. Soc, 1899, vol. xv, pp. 153, 154, 

 I pi. 



5. "Pearl Oysters and Pearl Fisheries." Ceylon Observer, 1900, 



pp. 1 — 12. 



6. "The Terrestrial MoUuscaof Ambagamuwa." Journ. Ceylon Asiat. 



Soc, 1901, vol. xvi, pp. I — 8. 



James G. Cooper. 



Born June lyth, 1S30. Died July lytli. 1902. 



By the death of Dr. Cooper, Western America loses another of its 

 pioneer zoologists. Born in New York in 1830, he received his degree 

 in 185 1, and two years later he was appointed physician on a govern- 

 ment survey between St. Paul and Puget Sound. Here part of his 

 duty was to make zoological and botanical collections, and after the 

 abandonment of the survey in 1855, he continued his field work on the 

 Pacific coast until i86a. In that year he was appointed Zoologist of 

 the California State Geological Survey. Later he served as a surgeon 

 in the Civil War, after which his life was spent in the practice of his 

 profession. 



Although interested in many branches of zoology, he published 

 upwards of forty papers on the moUusca, many of great value and 

 interest. 



NOTES. 



Physa viPgata mut. alba, nov.— shell pure white. Salt River at 

 Tempe, Arizona, 1902, with the ordinary form. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Limax maximus, L , in the Hawaiian Islands.— i have recently 



received from Professor H. W. Hen:~haw a small collection of slugs from the 

 neighbourhood of Hilo, amongst which is an example of Limax niaxiniiis, L. 

 Externally the body is a deep yellow (in alcohol) with about nine irregular and 

 broken black bands, the mantle is spotted with numerous black spots, mostly 

 smaller than those composing the bands. The generative organs differ slightly 

 from those of British or Continental specimens. This species has not hitherto 

 been recorded from the Hawaiian Islands.— \V.\lter E. Collinge. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 MIDLAND MAL AGO LOG I GAL SOGIETY. 



37TH Meeting, June 13TH, 1902. 



The President in the chair. 



Exhibits. 

 By Mr. F. J. Partridge : Siiccinca ohloiii^a from Braunton Marshes, North 

 Devon, and examples of Hydrohia Jcnkiiixi. 



