THE 
TOUR NAL 
CONCHOLOGY. 
The ‘ Journal of Conchology,’ which Mr. J. W. Taylor has 
conducted with so much enthusiasm and success for the last 
twenty-one years, has now become the property of the Con- 
chological Society. It will for the future be issued under the 
direction of the Council, by a Publication Committee which 
at the present time consists of the undersigned. 
It is hoped that the character of the journal will be 
fully maintained, and that articles of morphological interest may 
be somewhat more frequent than in the past. 
We may also indicate that papers will be received on 
Paleeo-Conchology, this branch of the subject being of the 
utmost importance to the geologist as well as to the the recent 
systematist. The former is enabled by fossil shells to fix his 
geological horizons, whilst the latter must study the shell-life of 
the past if he wishes to become acquainted with the ancestral 
forms of many of the modern genera. 
The formalities consequent upon the change of ownership 
have somewhat delayed the appearance of the present number, 
but every effort will be made in the future to secure regular 
publication, 
