DHE CONCHOLOGISTS”: 
EXCHANGE 65 
NEW LOCALITIES. 
Editor Conchologists’ Exchange : 
Sir: Please report the following new local- | 
ities: | 
Triton Swifti, Tryon. Reported in Tryon’s 
Manual only from Isle of Antigua, W. I., on 
authority of R. Swift. Several fine specimens 
of this shell were received from Miss Annie 
Peniston, collected in the Bermudas. 
Carychium exiguum, Say, was found by the 
writer in a wet hummock near Palma Sola, 
Florida. Not hitherto reported from the 
States, I believe. 
Succinea lineata, W. G. B., is abundant in 
this vicinity in pools of alkali water, near the 
South Platte River, in early Spring. 
Cuas. T. SIMPSON, 
Ogalalla, Neb. 
April 9, 1887. 
Editor Conchologists’ Exchange: 
Sir: Mr. E. P. Sampson, of Saco, Maine, | 
has found specimens of Pholas truncata, Say. 
at Scarboro, Maine. It has been said never to 
have been found North of Cape Cod, before. 
Epw. W. Roper, 
Revere, Mass. 
April 10, 1887. 
° STRIA. 
Professor Francis M. Burdick formerly of | 
Hamilton College, has joined the Cornell 
faculty. 
Professor Mobius of Kiel has become the 
Director of the Zoological Museum at Berlin. 
Professors Hadley, Farnum and Ripley of 
Yale expect to make a pedestrian tour of 
Switzerland in June. 
Rey. Dr Charles H. Seymour, an alumnus 
of Trinity College, Hartford, has been elected 
President of Griswold College, Davenport Iowa. | 
Professor Young of Princeton, will accom- | 
pany a party of Russian and English astron- 
omers who will observe the, total eclipse of the , 
sun in August next in Kireshama, Russia. 
In the British Museum, books on Natural 
history are bound in green, historical works in 
red, theological in blue, and poetical works in 
yellow. 
John A. Ryder, Professor of Comparative 
Embryology in the University of Pennsylvania, 
has brought the artificial propagation of the 
oyster to such perfection that its success seems 
to be assured. 
Dr. Albert Kellogg whose death is announced 
in another column, was the associate of Audu- 
bon, in Texas, as well as the botanist of the 
first Government expedition to Alaska after its 
purchase. 
The French Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, aided by some of the Parisian 
Medical Societies, have purchased a building 
in Paris which they will convert into a house 
for scientific societies. 
SUCCINEA LINEATA. W. G. B., IN 
NEBRASKA. 
RY CHARLES T. SIMPSON. 
| | NDER the head of ‘‘New Localities” this 
shell is mentioned as having been found 
in alkaline pools near the South Platte 
| River in early spring, and I should like to add 
| that it matures rapidly, attains its full size and 
dries before the heat and dry weather of summer 
comes on. It is found abundantly scattered 
over the prairies in a worn condition and also 
in stratified soil to the depth of a hundred 
feet, semi-fossil. I have collected it in a fresh 
condition under rocks and upon hills in the 
dryest localities. Mr. Binney described it 
from dead, faded specimens. and hence he 
could not be certain about the color. In text- 
ure the shell is much like Succinea campestris, 
Say, rather solid, and is covered with a coarse, 
yellowish epidermis which soon loosens on 
exposure after the animal dies. 
