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PROPOSED REPRINTING OF VOL. I. OF THE 

 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



FiiR some years past a notice lias api^eared on tlie third page of ihe cover of ilie 

 Journal v/\\.\\ reference to the projiosed reprinting of Vol. I., which has for a long 

 time been rare and difficult to procure even second-hand. 



The issue of the "Quarlcrlv Journal of Coiuholos;y,'' — as it was then called — 

 was due, as everyone knows, to the enterprise Of Mr. J, W. Taylor. The first 

 volume covered the years 1874 to 187S, and consists of 416 pages, with 4 plates, 

 and 2 woodcuts in the text. 



Amongst the contrihutors to this volume, we find such names as lUand, (jarrett. 

 Brazier, Angas, Gwyn Jeffreys, Marratt, I'etlerd, Sowerby, .Smith, and Stearns. 

 It contains descriptions of 48 new species of shells, many (unfortunately) >mfigured. 



I have often received enquiries from members as to the possibilit)- of sometliiiig 

 being done, and, at the instance of several who were ])resent at the last Annual 

 Meeting, I applied to our Publishers for an estimate. This is now to hand ' — 

 For 100 copies (text, figures, and plates), ;^"87 los. ; for 250 copies, ^98. 



Working on the basis of the smaller amount, it would require 84 subscriptions 

 at a guinea (the price suggested on the cover of i\\& Journal) to cover ilie outlay. 

 If a sufficient number of subscriptions is obtained to justify jointing, the Council 

 proposes to issue the volume to advance subscribers at a guinea : the price, subse- 

 quent to publication to be increased to 25s. 



The covers of the various numbers will 7iot be reprinted, as this would add con- 

 siderably to the expense. — Editok. . 



BI BLIOGRAPH Y, 



(limited to works rrceiveu bv the society's i.if.rakiax). 



"The American Species of Sphyradium, with an Enquiry as to their Generic 

 Relationships," by G. Dallas Hanna (of the U.S. liureau of Fisheries, 

 Washington, D.C.) — from I'roc. U.S. Nat. iMus., vol. 41, pp. 371-6. 

 This six-page pamphlet is of particular interest to British malacologists, on 

 account of the vicissitudes undergone' by our little 6>//jvijr////w cdentuluin -V>\-x^. 

 as regards classification. On" the oiher side of the Atlantic a species was deseril/ed 

 as Pupa simplex by Gould in 1840. Subsequently this was identified with S. eden- 

 ttilum, and the names are usually considered synonymous at the present day. -.Mr. 

 Hanna, however, thinks it possible tJiat the two are distinct, juxlging. fiom figures of 

 the genitalia of .'>■. edenlttliiin m Lehmanns " Leb, Schnecken und Nhischeln in 

 Pommern." These were published in 1S73, and are not good, and Mr. Mamia 

 complains of the lack of modern methods of dissection in, connexion with tliLs.species. 

 Lehmann describes the jaw of this snail as consisting of a single jiiece, and thi 

 radula as but slightly dift'erent from that of a Vertigo. .Since this .pamphlet vvas 

 written, Dall has reinvestigated the jaw and radula in fresh material, and confirms 

 the correctness of Sterki's statement that the jaw is composed of numerous separate 

 plate.s (about sixteen). This inaccuracy of Lehniann's seems to discount consider- 

 ably the value of his figures of the genitalia. 



NOTICE TO MEMBERS.— Alteration of Rule. 



At the next meeting, to be held on Wednesday, Jan. lotli, 1912, at 7 p.m., 

 the Manchester Museum, Mr. J. W. Taylor will move : — 



"That Rule 8 shall be altered to read j_ The, Presidency shall be ten.ilile for 

 one year only, and the President shall give an address. "■ 



