THE CONCHOLOGISTS’ EXCHANGE. 
Among these is the “ Shell-bearing Mollusca 
of Rhode Island,” a work of great merit by 
Mr. Horace F. Carpenter of Providence, a 
gentleman whose superior powers of observa- 
tion have been clearly shown in the chapters 
already published. Mr. Carpenter should 
complete the work and issue it in book form. 
John Ford. 
NEW LOCALITIES. 
Ed. Conchologists’ Exchange, Sir :—Your 
request for notes on shells during my collecting 
tour induces me to say that in dredging for 
Unionide in the St. John’s River nearly west 
of this place I found Alyiclopsis leucopheta 
Con. This little bivalve belonging to the sea 
or to brackish waters was here found about 
two hundred miles from the mouth of the 
river and in water entirely fresh. It was at- 
tached by its byssus to various Unios The 
Unios collected were Uxio anthonyi, Lea, 
jayanus, Lea, monroenstis, Lea, coruscus, Gld., 
buddianus, Lea, lepidus, Gld., akeneus, Lea; 
buckleyi, Lea, Anodonta gibbosa, Say, and 
couperiana, Lea. S. Hart Wright, Lake 
Helen, Fla. December 6th, 1886. 
Ed. Conchologists’ Exchange, Sir :—Your 
favor is at hand. Since writing to you before 
I have found Unio fuscatus, \.ea, in Lake 
Dias, and Unto paludicolus, Gould, in Lake 
Ashby, where it is over one hundred miles 
north of the Everglades, the original station. 
You might add these to the list formerly sent. 
S. Hart Wright, Lake Helen, Fla., 
December, 21Ist., 1886. 
STRIE. 
At the annual meeting of the members of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences. Dec. 28th, 
1886, the following officers were elected: 
President, Joseph Leidy; Vice-Presidents, 
Thomas Meehan, Rev. Dr. Henry McCook; 
Recording Secretary, Edward J. Nolan ; Cor- 
responding Secretary, George H. Horn; 
Treasurer, William C. Henszey; Librarian, 
Edward J. Nolan; Curators, Joseph Leidy, 
Jacob Binder, W S. W. Rushenberger, An- 
'gelo Heilprin; Councilors, George Y. Shoe- 
maker, Aubrey H. Smith, George A. Koenig, 
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George A. Rex; Finance Committee, [saac 
C. Martindale, Aubrey H. Smith, S. Fisher 
| Corlies, George Y. Shoemaker, William W. 
Jeffries. 
It is not generally known that Prof. R. B. 
Minton, of Carlinville, Ill.. has presented to 
Blackburn University a fine observatory con- 
taining one of the best telescopes in the State. 
He has been Professor of Mathematics there 
for twenty-five years. 
Professor Francis Kendall, of Crete, Neb., 
was one of the passengers on the ill-fated 
Baltimore and Ohio train which met with the 
terrible accident near Tiffin, Ohio. The Pro- 
fessor escaped injury and was one of the fore- 
most in helping the injured. 
Ernst Plotz, the noted German collector of 
butterflies, made an illustrated catalogue of his 
specimens with his own brush and_ pencil. 
When he died he had completed ten volumes 
containing over 10,000 pictures. 
Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, the noted British 
| naturalist has been delivering a course of 
lectures in Philadelphia, Boston and other 
cities. 
Ex-President Noah Porter, of Yale, received 
the degree of LL. D. from the University of 
Edinburgh on his recent visit there. 
Professor Joseph Leidy was elected an hon- 
orary member of the American Society of 
Naturalists at their late annual meeting in 
Philadelphia. 
The late Hon. Eli K. Price, of Philadel- 
phia, the eminent lawyer, found time to be an 
active and valuable member of various scien- 
tific and literary societies. 
Dr. S. Hart Wright is making numerous 
conchological discoveries in Florida, as his 
letters in another column will show. 
Mr. C. T. Simpson, of Ogalalla, Neb., has 
just finished a catalogue of the Mollusca of 
Florida and adjacent keys. 
