68 MELVILL : MEMOIR OF THE LATE HUGH CUMING. 
duced and concurred to crown the labours of Mr. Cuming with 
a success of which his unrivalled collection is a fitting monument, 
and of which science, and, let us hope, its cultivators in his 
native country more particularly, will long continue to reap the 
benefits.” * 
The British Museum purchased the collection in 1866. 
No less than 152 species of shells were specifically named 
in honour of this great naturalist, and I exhibit this evening 
examples of considerably more than half that number, the most 
conspicuous perhaps being the Voluta, Mitra, Natica, Cerithium, 
Neritina, Tridacna, and Mactra. 
Unio cumingit is also perhaps the most beautiful of a some- 
what sombre assemblage. Several of the species named after 
Mr. Cuming are unique and only to be found in our national 
collection, while others I have searched in vain for even there. 
One—Zngina cumingiana—I described as recently as January in 
this year (1895) from a specimen in the national collection, 
formerly in Mr. Cuming’s. 
Mr. Cuming died August roth, 1865, aged seventy-four 
years. One of his daughters married Mr. Thomas Bridges 
(1803—1865) a successful South American traveller and natura- 
list, in whose honour Bulimus bridgesit and Fissurella bridgesit 
were named. 
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A portrait of Mr. Cuming, reproduced from a photograph 
taken by the late Mr. Sidebotham, F.L.S., of Bowdon, which 
was exhibited at the meeting, appears in this number of the 
Journal. 
On the succeeding pages is given a list of mollusca named 
in honour of Mr. Hugh Cuming, amounting, as I have said, to 
152 species, besides which Sowerby called after him the genus 
Cumingia in the family Ze//inzde, consisting of eighteen species 
of West American and Antillean mollusca. 
c. f. “ Life of Sir Richard Owen,” by his grandson, the Rev. Richard Owen, vol. 
+> PP. 313, etc., 1894, where this appeal is given almost in extenso, 
J.C., viti., July 1895. 
