296 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. I4, NO. ID, APRIL, I915. 



In the January number the name of the President of the London Branch should 

 be A. E. Salisbury. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck communicates the following: — "The recent death 

 of Mr. Robert Kenton, of Greenlaw, Berwickshire, at the age of 75 years, removes 

 one who contributed materially to the Census of the Mollusca for that county — 

 for which thirty years ago he sent numerous species. He was not a professed 

 conchologist, but according to a brief note in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" for 

 i6th Jan., 1915, p. 36, he was a bryologist of wide reputation, and an entomologist, 

 antiquary, and numismatist of repute." 



In the Irish Naturalist for last October, vol. xxiii. , pp. 205—21 1 , are two .short 

 papers with reference to the anatomy of Vitrina hibernica Taylor, one by A. E. 

 Boycott, the other by E. W. Bowell. The reproductive organs of this species were 

 first described and figured by Bowell in the Irish Naturalist (1908), vol. xvii., p. 

 94, pi. 4 (under the name of V. pyrenaica Fer.), and subsequently by Taylor in his 

 Monograph from Simroth's dissections. These two accounts differed materially in 

 their interpretation of the organs opening into the atriicm, and Bowell in his recent 

 paper unhesitatingly admits that in the 1908 paper he interpreted wrongly. Boycott, 

 in the paper mentioned above, from the examination of a complete series of micro- 

 scopical sections confirms the views of Simroth and Taylor as to the organs in 

 question, but he finds that though the opening of the vas deferens into the penis- 

 sheath is lateral, as figured and described, yet the vas deferens is continued within 

 \h& penis-sheath to its distal end, where it opens into 'Cno. penis, thus approximating 

 to the arrangement in Vitrina pellncida. 



Our congratulations are due to Mr. J. W. Taylor, alike on his seventieth birthday 

 and the recognition thereof by the Society, and on the completion of the third 

 volume of his Monograph with the appearance of part 21 on December 21st. This 

 part contains pp. 481 — 522 and plates 19 and 28 with index. The text consists of 

 supplementary notes on H. potnatia, H. aspersa, H. nemoi-alis, H. hortensis, H. 

 pisana, H. lapicida and H. arbustorum, a new variety of H. hortensis being 

 described under the name of var. fascialba Taylor. Text figures are given of 

 additional continental varieties, there is a full list of subscribers, and an additional 

 bibliography. It is satisfactory to note the Public Libraries of 23 towns, and 54 

 Societies, Museums, or other Institutions amongst the subscribers. Plate xix. 

 contains the British species of Punctum, Pyramidula and Helicigona, while plate 

 xxviii. gives beautiful colour reproductions of 19 ioxms oi Helix hortensis. These 

 are up to the very best standard of Mr. Taylor's work. 



We understand that all the collection of recent shells formed by the late A. J. 

 Jukes-Browne is bequeathed to the Oxford University Museum. Most of his fossils 

 had been given away many years ago, but the local collection of polished corals 

 from the limestone has gone to the Torquay Natural History Society's Museum, 



