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Since describing this fine shell I have discovered that the 

 specific name had been previously used by Conrad,* for a fossil 

 species from Oregon, North America, but whether that form 

 really belongs to Fusus is very uncertain, for Mr. Dall,t of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, observes respecting it : — " This con- 

 sists of the internal cast of a species of MoUusk, which may be 

 a Pleurotoma, or almost anything else of a fusiform shape." 

 However, to prevent any further difficulty, I think it best to 

 re-name the living species, and have, therefore, associated with 

 it the name of Mr. Charles Price, from whom the British 

 Museum recently received two specimens of this species. 

 These were collected either at Cleveland Bay, Queensland, or 

 at Port Moresby, S.E. of New Guinea. The habitat of the type 

 was unknown. 



Occurrence of Vertigo alpestris Alder in York- 

 shire. — On May ist of the present year, Mr. H. T. Soppitt, of 

 Bradford, was fortunate in adding this species to the Yorkshire 

 list. The locality is the top of a mossy ivy-covered wall at 

 Cottingley, near Bingley, where the shells are found attached 

 to the dead leaves and stems of the ivy. There is a rich 

 vegetable humus on the wall, into which the Vertigo may penetrate 

 in dry weather. It appears to be quite gregarious in its habits, 

 and in favourable weather four or five specimens may be had 

 from a single handful of leaves. It is associated with Helix 

 rufescens, Zonites crystallitms Vitrina pellucida and Clausilia 

 rugosa. The vegetation on the wall consists of a few nettles, 

 Arenaria trinervis, Saxifraga tridactylitesdind. Poly podium vidgare. 

 The altitude is about 300 feet, and the formation of the district 

 millstone grit, with which stone the wall itself is built. Mr. J. A. 

 Hargreaves first separated these specimens from V. pygmea, 

 with which they were at first confounded. — Jno. W. Taylor, 

 Oct. loth, 1887. 



* Geol. U.S. Explor. Exped., vol. x, p. 728, pi. 20, fig. 4, 

 t Proc. Calif. Acad. Sei., 1877, p. 3. 



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