ELE 
- CONCHOLOGISTS’ 
EXCHANGE. 
tirely extinct. The last living specimens that I 
have found were along the margin of a spring 
swamp, near Wild Cat Slough. It is found 
fossil here in the tertiary or postpleiocene 
clays, and beds of our Mississippi River 
bluffs. 
PULMONATA. 
Sub-order Limnophila. 
FAMILY AURICULID. 
SUB-FAMILY AURICULIN. 
Genus Carychium, Miller. 
86 —Carychiune exiguum, Say. 
Shell elongated, tapering at both ends, 
white, translucent, shining, apex obtuse, whirls 
five to six, convex, oblique, with transverse 
striz, suture distinct, impressed, aperture ob- 
liquely oval, white lip thick, reflected, flattened; 
umbilicus perforated, a plait-like tooth, on the 
middle of the columella, about midway between 
the extremities of the lip. This peculiar and 
very minute species used to be found abundant 
in nearly all moist situations in our county, 
being found on moss, wet leaves, bark. drift- 
wood. and even under old rails and fence 
boards, along old fence rows, in moist places. It 
probably inhabits nearly every State in the 
Union. It is very sluggish in its movements, 
but when in aon carries its shell horizontally. 
Many years ago, after a freshet, in our small 
spring sloughs, [ found great numbers of 
this minute shell, in the 27/¢s, where they had 
been swept down from their hiding places by 
the sudden rise in the waters. 
To be 
ANDREW GARRETT. 
Continued. 
BY REV. EBENEZER V. COOPER. 
Mr, Andrew Garrett, the celebrated conchol- 
ogist, died at his residence, on the Island of 
Huahine, Society Group, South Seas, on the 
Ist of November, (1887,) in the 65th year of 
his age. For some months past he had suffered 
from a severe form of cancer in the face, which 
at last brought about his death. Mr. Garrett 
was the third child in a family of fourteen, and, 
was born on the 9th of April, 1823, in Beaver 
Street, Albany, New York State. His mother 
was one Joanna Van Nean Campaneaux, a na- 
tive of Belgium, of good education, and speak- 
ing several languages; his father being Fran- 
cis Garrett, a native of Canada. Both parents 
lived to old age, the mother attaining 72 years, 
and the father $4 years. ‘The early life of 
Andrew Garrett was spent im Vermont State, 
where he very soon manifested a decided sci- 
entific turn of mind; on one occasion, at eight 
years of age, he left home without warning to 
visit a museum some hundred miles away, 
which, having accomplished, he returned home 
again in safety. lie had a great fondness for 
travel, and to satisfy the longing, he went to 
sea at the age of 18. Asa shell collector, he 
made his first acquaintance with the South 
Pacific in 1848, and in 1852 he ultimately 
adopted that island-studded ocean as his special 
field of research. Since that time Mr. Garrett 
has visited almost every island of note in the 
various groups of the poe Pacific, spending 
considerable time in each group. His studies 
not oply embraced shells of the marine, fresh 
water and land orders, but also birds, fishes, 
and other objects of natural history; he was 
also a botanist. Lor one period of ten years 
he was professionally engaged in the interests 
of the Goddefroi Museum, Hamburg, during 
which time was published ‘* Andrew Garrett’s 
Fische der Sudsee, im six parts, edited by Dr. 
Albert Giinther, of the British Museum.” Mr. 
Garrett was also, for a time, associated with 
Prof. Agassiz. 
In addition to visiting and residing in every 
group of Islands in the South Pacific, Mr, Gar- 
rett visited and explored many parts of the At- 
lantic and Pacific Coasts of South America, the 
East and West Indies, the Sandwich Islands, 
and some parts of the United Seas His dili- 
gent and learned researches soon gave him a 
place as an authority amongst conchologists— 
an authority now everywhere recognized. His 
correspondents were very numerous, residing 
in all parts of the world. Mr. Garrett’s pri- 
vate collection of shells (now on sale) consists 
of over 8000 species, and comprising over 
30,000 examples, representing almost every 
known part of the globe. Of this large col- 
lection, Mr. Garrett has himself collected some 
4000 species. ‘The deceased was a correspond- 
ing member of the California Academy of Sci- 
ences, and of the Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Science. 
