2 66 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Mr. Andrew Garrett. — We understand that this dis- 

 tinguished conchologist has fixed his head-quarters this year in 

 the conchologists' paradise, the Solomon Islands, for a three years' 

 exploration of the surrounding groups, such as the New Hebrides, 

 Australia, &c. 



Vernacular Names and Folk-Lore. — The recent perusal 

 of a provisional Index to a glossary of fish-names, by Mr. Thomas 

 Satchell, to be published by the English Dialect Society, has 

 suggested to us the desirability of recording in the pages of this 

 journal the vernacular and local names given to the mollusca and 

 their shells, as well as notes on popular beliefs and superstitions 

 connected with the various species. We shall be glad if our 

 readers will favor us from time to time with such notes, even if 

 only detached and brief articles. 



Muscatine Conchological Club. — From a history of the 

 county of Muscatine, Iowa, with which Prof Witter has favored 

 us, we see that conchology is honored with special facilities for 

 its cultivation in the form of a club established for the study of 

 mollusca, more especially those of Muscatine County. The club 

 has been in existence about two years. Its present officers are: 

 President, F. M. Witter; Secretary, Wm. Roach; Treasurer, Jno. 

 Fogerty. Meetings are held weekly during a part of the winter, 

 at which papers are read on the species of mollusca found near 

 Muscatine, each member taking such species as he may be best 

 able to illustrate by specimens. No membership fee is charged 

 and there are no dues, but a fund from voluntary contribution is 

 accumulating for the purpose of publishing at an early day a full 

 annotated list of the living mollusks of the district. Our readers 

 will no doubt wish, as we do, prosperity to this unpretentious and 

 unambitious organization. 



J.C, ii., Sept., 1879 



