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RIssoa cimicoides Forbes. — Also identified by Mr. Marshall 



among specimens of ^. reticulata. 

 R. striatula Mont. — Menavawr, a large but broken specimen 



(A. H. Cooke). 



Mr. Marshall has likewise identified the following OdostomicB 

 from the shells of that genus dredged by Messrs. Smart and 

 Cooke : — 



Odostomia rissoides Han. 

 O. rissoides van dubia Jeff. 

 O. rissoides var. alba Jeff. 

 O. pallida var. angusta Jeff. 

 O. conoidea var. austral is Jeff. 

 O. unidentata var. elata Jeff. 

 Akera bullata Miill. — Menavawr (A. H. Cooke). This is 



one of the species recorded by Lord Vernon, and now 



confirmed. 

 Sevenoaks, Torquay, December, 1888. 



Obituary. 



Sir David Barclay. 



The loss of a veteran conchologist. Sir David William 

 Barclay, tenth Baronet, which occurred at his residence, Holland 

 Road, Kensington, on the 23rd November, in his 85th year, is 

 worthy of a short record in the Journal of Conchology. His 

 long residence in the Mauritius enabled him to make, not only 

 a fine collection of the Land and Marine Shells of that locality, 

 but also to visit other Islands and Reefs, thereby adding many 

 new and interesting forms to science. His collections altogether 

 contained about 17,000 species. On the occasion of my last 

 visit to him, early in November, he had been unwell, but was 

 then much better, and in capital spirits. We spent some hours 

 in chatting and looking over some of his cabinets, and he recalled 

 with great delight over a drawer of beautiful Mauritius Pectens, 

 the various details concerning their capture. His name will be 



J.C, vi., Jan., 1889. 



