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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Nelson collections were formally presented to the University of Leeds on 

 February 28, by Mr. J. W. Taylor, chairman of the Memorial Committee. The 

 Leeds Conchological Club specially invited Manchester members of the Concho- 

 logical Society over for the occasion, and afterwards entertained them to tea. 



Messrs. Melvill and Standen^ have recently published another paper on the 

 Falklands Mollusca, with plate, and descriptions of six new species. When one 

 reads of the conditions under which the marine fauna of these islands lives, it is 

 surprising that so many species survive the struggle for existence. Most of the 

 larger shells seem invariably to bear evidence of the severity of wind and weather. 



We have received an interesting series of papers that appeared last year, by F. 

 Booth, on Land and Freshwater Mollusca in the North of Scotland.- These notes, 

 which are prefaced by a short report by Messrs. Roebuck and Tajdor, are the 

 results of a tour made by Mr. Booth, in 1910, to investigate the shell fauna of the 

 vice-counties of Ross East, Ross West, Westerness, Ebudes North (Isle of Skye), 

 Aberdeen North, Aberdeen South, and Kincardine, and show an addition of 84 to 

 the authenticated records. Attention is called to the greater advance of most life 

 along the coasts of Great Britain on the east side. Mr. Booth's articles make very 

 interesting reading, as a very clear and concise account is given of the geographical, 

 physical and geological features of each area explored. 



An important paper" has just appeared on the " Pleurotomidre of New Caledonia 

 and its dependencies," by MM. Bouge and Dautzenberg, and is of more than 

 ordinary interest to some of us as it deals incidentally with a very fascinating item of 

 the fauna of Lifu. This revision was especially necessary in the case of the Lifu 

 things, as there was unintentionally considerable overlapping between the papers of 

 Melvill and Standen in vol. 8 of this Journal and those of Abbe Hervier in the 

 Journnl de Conchyliologie about the same time. MM. Bouge and Dautzenberg 

 ha^ve been able to clear up authoritatively the resulting synonymy, as they had 

 before them most of the types in question— those of Melvill and Standen, thanks to 

 the complaisance of the authorities of the Manchester Museum^ while most of 

 Hervier's types are in the official collection of the Journal de Conchyliologie. We 

 are surprised that they did not unite Glyphostouia lamproideuni Herv. with G. 

 creinonilla M. & S., as there can be hardly any doubt as to the identity of these two 

 names. A great many of these new forms from Lifu are now being turned up in 

 Japan by Hirase's collectors. The reference which the authors could not find for 

 the original description of C/«//^K;-£//rt rufozonata hxi^2^% is in P.Z.S., 1877, p. 38. 

 The name should, however, be deleted as far as Lifu is concerned, as we are able 

 to state, from an inspection of specimens, that it was based on examples of 

 Glyphostoma granosuin Dkr. 



1 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. S, vol. 13, Jan., 1914, pp. no — 136. 



2 Scottish Nat., 1913. 



3 Jour, de ConcJi,., vol. 61, pp. 123 — 214. 



