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ly developed equalling if not exceeding European examples in size, 

 and exists there in immense numbers. The physical conditions 

 under which the species exists in the localities where it is found in 

 America seem peculiarly adapted to its increase and dispersal and 

 it bids fair to soon surpass the native species in abundance. 



Description of a Partula supposed to be new, from 

 the Island of Moorea. — By W. D. Hartman, M.U. — Trans, of 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. of Philadelphia, 1880, p. 229. 



Partula Mooreana, from Vaianai Valley, Island of Moorea. 



The surface of the shell is thickly crowded with waved spiral 

 strise, as in P. spadicea. The new species is arboreal, and not 

 uncommon on bushes. 



List of Brachiopoda or Lamp shells, found in Port 

 Jackson, and the coast of New South Wales.— By John 

 Brazier, C.M.Z.S., &c.— From the Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, Vol. iv, p. 399. 



An enumeration of the Brachiopoda found at the mentioned 

 places, and submitted to Mr. Davidson, the species are Magasella 

 Camingi, and var., Megerlia pidchella, Sow., Megerlia sanguinea, 

 ■ and Terebratidina caficellata, var. 



Kraussia Lamankiana, has also .recently been found by Mr. 

 Brazier, at Double Bay, Port Jackson. 



Bythinia tentaculata, (L.) in N. America.— By W. M. 



Beauchamp,— American Naturahst, July, 1880, p. 523. 



This h.:\\ WIS fir>t f,)unrl in June, 1879, at Oswego, N.Y., 

 a little later in the Cham])lain Canal at Waterford and Troy, and 

 earlv in i8^o plentifully in the Erie Canal at Syracuse, N.Y. In 

 some localities it is already abundant. 



J.C, iii., April, 1S81 



