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There are two pairs of/*, iumida, but the locality (" Meditn.") of one 

 must be an error. 



The two which you query as P. nana are identical with two which 

 Sowerby sent me as manilLe (Sow.), and he ought to be right. If he is, 

 then Romer is wrong again, for his manilli^ is just like the specimen of 

 yours which I have put in a pill-box. This species — the vianilhe of Romer 

 — will have to be renamed. 



I have had some correspondence with Smith about Callocardia, the 

 result of which is to upset my previous ideas. He will not now admit birtsi 

 and pudicissivia to belong to Callocardia, and if they do not I have never 

 seen a Callocardia, and his figure of the hinge is quite too poor to depend 

 upon. 



Your two shells belong to the birtsi group, and seem to be of the same 

 species, but they do not agree with birtsi or fudicissinia, so I cannot name 

 them. 



Curiously enough, Mr. McAndrew recently sent me a large shell of the 

 same group to examine, and I sent it on to Smith ; but he could not name 

 it, and said it differed from all in the B. M. The group wants investigating. 



One of your species is a Callista, and three others are Gomphina, one 

 of the latter being apparently a new species. You should take it to the 

 B.M. when you next go to London. 



The shells have been interesting to work at, and with many thanks, 

 I remain. Yours very truly, 



A. J. Jukes-Browne. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Annual Meeting, due to be held last October, was postponed, and the follow^- 

 ing resolution, passed unanimously at a Special Council Meeting held on Sept. 30th, 

 was affixed to the cover of our October number : — 



"That owing to the present circumstances caused by the war the Council 

 deem it fitting to postpone the Annual Meeting, fixed for October, until such 

 time as the President — who is in Australia, and likely to be detained beyond 

 the time fixed for his return — can be communicated with, when, it is suggested, 

 he be requested to retain office for another year." 



M. Dautzenberg has recently published a new ^ list of the species of moUusca 

 (recent and fossil) of which a sinistral or dextral monstrosity is on record, the total 

 being 178 sinistral and 17 dextral. To this catalogue we can add two species of 

 which sinistral examples exist in our own collection, viz., Tritonoftistis gracilis 

 daCosta, and Ma7-ginella diaphana Kiener, and \\\q Journal of Conchology has in 

 past numbers recorded ^,»/?V<?./i7«^a ti^z^isZ/z/fl Mtiller, Limuiza glabra M tiller, Vivi- 

 para contecta Millet, Liiinuea aurictilaria L. , and Vertigo siibstriata Jeffreys, which 

 are not on M. Dautzenberg's list. 



I Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, vol. 39, p. 50 (1914). 



