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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIKTiT. 
  

  

  while 
  writing, 
  there 
  is 
  the 
  shadow 
  of 
  much 
  sadness 
  over 
  this 
  com- 
  

   munication. 
  For 
  the 
  letter 
  quoted 
  above 
  was 
  the 
  last 
  he 
  wrote 
  to 
  me, 
  

   and 
  although 
  I 
  saw 
  him 
  at 
  the 
  Museum 
  in 
  January, 
  and 
  apparently 
  

   well, 
  we 
  heard 
  of 
  his 
  sudden 
  death 
  on 
  the 
  23rd 
  February. 
  He 
  was 
  

   a 
  conchological 
  friend 
  for 
  many 
  years, 
  among 
  the 
  first 
  I 
  made 
  in 
  

   India, 
  associated 
  with 
  many 
  others 
  wlio 
  have 
  gone. 
  This 
  is 
  not 
  

   the 
  place 
  for 
  an 
  obituary 
  notice, 
  which 
  I 
  hope 
  soon 
  to 
  give 
  to 
  the 
  

   Malacological 
  Society. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  very 
  little 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  generic 
  position 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  

   yet 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  see 
  the 
  animal 
  and 
  ascertain 
  whether 
  

   so 
  far 
  to 
  the 
  eastward 
  the 
  generative 
  organs 
  follow 
  those 
  of 
  0. 
  orobia 
  

   from 
  Sikhim 
  (vide 
  Fauna 
  British 
  India, 
  p. 
  170, 
  fig. 
  60), 
  which, 
  with 
  

   those 
  of 
  0. 
  cycloijlax, 
  are 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  plan 
  as 
  is 
  seen 
  in 
  3Iacrochlamt/s. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  in 
  general 
  form 
  and 
  narrow 
  umbilicus 
  is 
  near 
  0. 
  castor, 
  

   Theob., 
  of 
  the 
  Khasi 
  Hills, 
  but 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  distinguished 
  at 
  once 
  by 
  its 
  

   lower, 
  fl.atter 
  apex. 
  0. 
  Shanensis,^ 
  G.-A., 
  is 
  a 
  somewhat 
  similar 
  

   shell, 
  but 
  far 
  more 
  widely 
  and 
  openly 
  umbilicated. 
  As 
  this 
  shell 
  was 
  

   not 
  figured 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  it 
  was 
  described 
  I 
  now 
  take 
  the 
  opportunity 
  of 
  

   giving 
  drawings 
  of 
  it. 
  Figs. 
  C. 
  

  

  1 
  Moll. 
  Incl., 
  vol. 
  i, 
  p. 
  128, 
  1883, 
  and 
  Fauna 
  British 
  India, 
  1908, 
  p. 
  168. 
  

  

  