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instruction ihcreased from five to one hundred. Though he resigned 

 this appointment in 1885, it was not till twenty years later that he 

 finally severed his connexion with the Department of Public Instruc- 

 tion. He was chiefly interested in shells, ferns, and mosses, and in 

 1893 published a "Catalogue of the Land and Freshwater Shells of 

 the Hawaiian Islands," which, though brief and unpretentious, has 

 been most useful for its reliable synonymy and its locality records. 

 He described many new species of AchatiiieUidce, and has had at 

 Itast nine Hawaiian novelties named after him, as well as Baldwiuia 

 Ancey — a section of Partnliua. He died at Honolulu on June i6th, 

 1912. 



REV. G. W. TAYLOR, D.D. 



Dr. Taylor died at his home on Departure Bay, Vancouver Island, 

 in August, 19 1 2. He was well known as a student of the marine 

 shells of the Pacific coast, and was also interested in Entomology and 

 other branches of natural history. When the Dominion government 

 established a marine biological station on the coast of British 

 Columbia, Dr. Taylor chose the site for it, near Nanaimo, superin- 

 tended the building, and remained in charge of the station when 

 completed until his death. 



He published a " Preliminary Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca 

 of the Pacific Coast of Canada,", with notes, in the Trans. Roy. See. 

 of Canada, 1895-6 ; a supplement appeared somewhat later, and 

 latterly he was engaged upon a new Catalogue which was never 

 completed. He also published lists of the land and freshwater shells 

 of Vancouver and of British Columbia. He leaves a very large 

 and valuable collection of shells, particularly rich in Unionidce and 

 PatellidcE. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



A LARGK and influential Committee has been formed under the patronage of the 

 Duke of Devonshire, with Mr. J. W. Taylor in the chair, to acquire the concholo- 

 gical collections and lil^rary of the late William Nelson, for the University of Leeds, 

 as a permanent memorial of this excellent naturalist. About ;r^ioo is required, and 

 subscriptions should be sent to the Hon. Treasurer and Secretary of the Committee, 

 Mr. W. D. Roebuck. Nelson was one of the founders and first editors of the 

 lournal of Conchology. 



We have received the following interesting note from M. Bavay of Paris, with 

 reference to Mai-guiella warrenii Marrat, which was figured for the first lime in our 

 April number : " en examinant attentivement la belle figure que vous donnez de 

 M. warrenii, j' ai ete frappe du facies austral de cette coquille. Ne serait-ce pas 



