52 THE 
CONCHOLOGSSTS’ 
EXCHANGE. 
ing carefully compared my shells with specimens 
of that species in the C ollection of the Acade- 
my, informs me that it is not that, but that it is 
certainly a new species. 
therefore, in naming it in his honor. Its corne- 
ous operculum places it in the sub-genus 
Neverita, and the want of a funiculum makes 
ita member of the section Lumatia. 
CuHas, T. SIMPSON. 
Ogallala, Neb., Sept. 1, 1887. 
STRIA. 
Raton, New Mexico, 
well, 
owns a natural gas 
aes : 5 . 
[here are 300 species of fossils in the famous 
steatite beds of Grundy Go., Ill. 
A storm and tidal wave occurred at Guaymas 
and San Blas, Mexico, lately. 
A Museum of Natural History is to be erect- 
ed at Coronado Beach, Cal. 
Parry’s Marmot, Sfermophelus arry, 
said to live nine months under the snow. 
is 
The common robin, 7urdus migratorius, 
was observed on the Mussel Creek, Idaho, 
6000 feet above sea-level. 
It is announced that Professor 
Harvard, is to marry 
Wellesley College. 
Palmer, 
President Freeman, of 
Ferns to the number of 129 species have been 
found on the Sandwich Islands, but 10 of which 
also inhabit North America. 
A rare Western plant, Wolfenia veniforimrs, 
Hook, has been found as late as June 28th in 
full bloom, near the snow at an altitude of 6000 
feet. 
Rev. W. M. Beauchamp, of Baldwinsville, 
N_Y., lately read a paper of great merit upon 
Indian antiquities before the Pennsylvania His- 
torical Society of Philadelphia. 
I take great pleasure, | 
of | 
The Biological Class of the University of 
Pennsylvania, lately working in the West Indies, 
has returned with a great quantity of material. 
Emin Bey lately sent a large and valuable 
collection of Natural History specimens to the 
South Kensington Museum, London. 
Geo. H. Taylor, of Mobile, Ala., is now at 
work on the muds of Beaufort harbor, N. C., 
in search of microscopical material. 
A. H. Brecenfeld, Recording Secretary of 
the San Francisco Microscopical Society, has 
resigned, and has gone to San Diego. 
Milan possesses an 800 pound quartz crystal, 
3% feet long, and 5% feet in circumference. 
The next meeting of the Amn. 
the Advancement of Science, will be held at 
Cleveland, ©. Professor E S. Morse, of Sa- 
lem, Mass., has retired from the Presidency. 
Ass’n. for 
Twenty-eight miles per hour, it is said, 
the fastest time made by any boat, and that’ - 
an Italian twin-screw torpedo boat. 
Senorita Matilda Montoya is the first Mexi- 
can woman to become a doctor. The proceeds 
of a bull-fight, originated by the young men of 
the City of Mexico, were devoted to the pur- 
chase of books and instruments for her. 
A new variety of Papilio rutulus, and named 
by Mr. James Behrens, var. Azmonz, has been 
found in Nevada by Herr v. Ammon, of San 
Francisco, after whom it was named. Also a 
new Catocala. named by Mr. Behrens, Catocala 
Elda, n. sp., found at Portland, ¢ Jregon.— Cana- 
dian ga October. 
Young Col ieee Corner, 
Shell Collecting. 
CHAS. T SIMPSON. 
lt is) the 
young, 
fashion, now-a-days, among the 
and some who are not so young, to 
