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THE - CONCHOELOGISTS’ - EXCHANGE. 
and the need of a handy work on the shells of 
the wonderland west of the ‘“ Rockies.” 
Catalogue and Circular of the California State 
Normal School, San José, for school year end- 
ing May 26, 1887. From Mrs. A. E. Bush, 
Curator of the Museum 
Exchange List of Mollusks from Key West, 
Bahamas, etc , collected during the Spring sea- 
sons of 1885-86, by Wm. H. Rush, M. D., U. 
S. N. 
We welcome to our table the following :— 
The Naturalists’ Leisure Hour Library, Vol. 1, 
No. 1; The Western Naturalist, Madison, 
Wis.; The Geologists’ Gazette, Wishita, Kan. ; 
The Young Geologist, Oskaloosa, Ia.; The 
Curiosity World, Lake Village, N. H.; The 
Mohawk Standard, Delta, N. Y.; The Hornet, 
New Castle, Indiana; The Journal of Science 
and Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 
NECROLOGY. 
Spencer Fullerton Baird died at Wood’s | 
Holl, Mass., at 3.45 P. M.. August 19th. Pro- 
fesgor Baird was born February 3d, 1835. At 
the age of 17 he graduated from Dickinson Col- 
lege, after which he began collecting his famous 
cabinet of Natural History specimens, which 
became the nucleus of the museum of the 
Smithsonian Institution. In 1848 he received 
the degree of M. D. Honoris Causa, from the 
Philadelphia Medical College. Dickinson Col- 
lege chose him as its Professor of Natural His- 
tory in 1845, and subsequently elected him to 
the chair of Natural History, and conferred on 
him the degree of Doctor of Physical Science. 
In 1850, he was made Assistant Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution, and upon the death 
of Professor Henry in 1878, he succeeded him 
as Secretary. In 1871 he was appointed U. 5. 
Fish Commissioner,-by President Grant. 
Alvan Clark, Sr., on the 19th of August. 
He was the head of the well-known firm of tele- 
scope makers, A. Clark & Sons. 
Thomas McCormick, Mineralogist of Union 
Township, Hudson Co., N. J. Mr. McCor- 
mick was stung by a spider while searching for 
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minerals, near Union Hill, N. J., for the State 
Geologist, and expired in terrible agony, from 
the effects of the bite, August 22d. 
Lxpthauge Calun. 
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Each subscriber to Volume II, will have the privi- 
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price. 
Wanted.—Achatinella, Goniobasis and Spheri- 
um. Offered.—Land, fresh-water and marine Mol- 
lusea. H.P Smith,’ ustodian Cincinnati Sociery of 
Natural History, 1u8 Broadway, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
Wanted.—With localities, identified or not, Io, 
Angitrema, Lithasia, Strephobasis, Pleurocera, Gon- 
ivbasis, Schizostoma, Anculosa. Other shells in ex- 
change. Correspondents solicited. A. A. HINKLEY, 
DuBois, Ill. 
Offered —Botanical and Conchological Specimens, 
Books, &e. for Books, Papers, Specimens in Conchol- 
ogy, Botany, Microscopy and Entomology. Shells 
are mostly from California and Europe. Plants 
from Connecticut. 
G. R. LUMSDEN, 54 Second St., 
Norwich, Conn. 
Wanted.—In exchange, Indian Arrow-heads and 
sird Eggs for Land, Fresh-water and Sea Shells or 
Bird Eggs. CASPER LOUCKS, York, Pa. 
Wanted.—In perfect condition, with localities :— 
CYPRAZA aurantium, nivosa, exusta, Scotti, thersi- 
tes, tessellata, physis, eglantina, fusco-dentata and 
umbilicata. MUREX, Saulic, palma-rose and tenu- 
ispina. OLIVA, angulata, maura, Melchersi, por- 
phyria, tenebrosa, tremulina. STROMBUS guttatus, 
latissimus and melanostomus. VOLUTA, fulgetra, 
junonia, imperialis, magnifica, reticulata, Rossiniana 
and rare Asiatic, Australian, African and South 
American Bulimi, Helicide and Unionide. 
Offered.—50 species of Tertiary and other Fossils 
from Southern States and Europe, Woodward s Man- 
ual of the Mollusca 75 edition: Leidy’s Memoir of 
the Extinet Sloth Tribe, N. A.; Lea’s Syn. of Family 
of Naiades, ’52 edition: Hays’ Descrip. Inf. Max’y 
Bones of Mastodons, 10 plates: Agassiz and Gould’s 
