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La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, ser. 3, nos. 342-343, April-May, 1899. 



" Revision des neurotomes eocenes du bassin de Paris" (Suite), by E. DE Boury. 

 Science Gossip, vol. 5, nos. 59-60, April-May, 1899. 



"Molluscs in Asia Minor," by J. Bliss. "Pirula nodulifera in North Kent," 

 by J. P. Johnson. "Armature of helicoid land-shells, and new forms of Plecto- 

 pylis " [P. congesta Tonkin], by G. K. Gude. " Notes on mollusca at Reigate, 

 Surrey," by R. Ashington Bullen. 

 Notes on a Third Collection of Marine Shells from the Andaman Islands, 



with descriptions of three new species of Mitra, by J. C. Melvill and E. R. 



Sykes [list of 59 forms, 3 nn. spp. figured]. 

 Vie et Travaux de Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse : Notice biographique 



par C. Poyard ; OZuvre scientifique par H. Fischer. 

 The Journal of Malacology, vol. 7, no. 2, May, 1899. 



"The specific position of the reputed British Hyalinia glabra Studer " [the 

 British form is not H. glabra of Studer], by W. Moss. " Notes on the species of 

 Ennea and Leptopoma recorded from Ceylon, etc." [6 nn. spp. figured], by E. R. 

 Sykes. " Phasianella i ptdla ' or 'pullt/s'" [latter is correct], by A. H. Cooke. 

 "On the occurrence in Ireland of Arion empiricorum Fer. var. bocagei Simr. ," by 

 W. E. Collinge. " Species of Plectopylis recently described in 'Science Gossip,'" 

 by G. K. Gude. "Mollusca of Grange-over-Sands" [additions to Standen's list, 

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NOTE ON THE GENUS HERVIERA. 



By J. COSMO MELVILL and R. STANDEN. 



(Read before the Society, May ioth, it 



Referring to the description of this genus (p. 185, supra), we wish 

 to call attention to the fact that Le Pere Jean Hervier, of Lyon, after 

 whom it was named, is the conchologist of this distinguished family. 

 We inadvertently gave the designation and residence of his cousin, 

 the Abbe Joseph Hervier, of St. Etienne, the well-known botanist, 

 after whom Trifolium hervieri, Hieracium hervieri, etc., are called. 

 We regret that, misled by the exact similarity of initial, we unwittingly 

 created a confusion we now seek, by this note, to rectify. 



We may add that further examples of both H. gliriella and H. 

 isidella have lately been found by Mr. R. Cairns amongst shell- 

 shingle forwarded from Uvea. 



Vertigo alpestris Alder in Lancashire.— This extremely rare shell does not 

 appear to have been taken by any Lancashire conchologists since Gilbertson's record 

 of " Clitheroe in Lancashire " quoted by Jeffreys (Brit. Conch., vol. 1, p. 260). 

 It is, therefore, noteworthy that during the summer of 1898, Mr. F. C. Long, of 

 Padiham, took it amongst moss at the foot of an old wall in the Roughlee Valley, 

 Pendle Forest, and has kindly given me the opportunity of exhibiting it at this 

 meeting. — R. Standen {Read before the Society, Jan. nth, 1899). 



