42 LAYARD : REMINISCENCES OF LATE HUGH CUMING. 
Conus gloria-mavis+ under one stone, on a reef, somewhere in 
the Philippine Islands. “I nearly fainted with delight,” he 
said. 
On another occasion, immediately after his arrival in the 
Islands, he met a native, whom he had commissioned to get 
him some land-shells, stalking along with a large palm branch 
bag slung over his shoulder, from which escaped grand 
Cochlostyli, at that time perfectly unknown to science and to 
European collectors. They were crawling down the man’s back 
and dropping to the ground, while he walked on in perfect 
indifference to the treasures he was losing, but the sight of 
which drove my old friend frantic with delight ! 
I had placed my entire collection at his disposal, and it 
took him three nights to go over it! Each night he carried off 
one of the drawers of my cabinet, 16 x 14 inches, heaped up 
with specimens! ‘‘Madam,” he said to my mother, ‘‘I have 
never obtained so many valuable specimens from any single 
One night, I remember, he suddenly 
pounced down on a pair of most lovely Zu/ima, and placed 
them in his pocket, saying they were quite new, and too valu- 
able to be trusted among the other shells. They were the only 
1? 
collection, in my life 
pair I ever dredged, and they came together inonehaul. They 
were over an inch long, of the most surprising smoothness and 
lustre, and a delicate rose tint. 
In exchange for the shells I gave him, he gave me a fair 
series of the Philippine Island shells, and a series representing 
most of the genera of land and fresh water shells, to which I 
found myself obliged to restrict my collection, as I was a poor 
man, and unable to afford the necessary cabinets to contain 
the numerous and large marine species, and the cost of trans- 
+ These three Conus gloria-marvis were found on a reef off the Island of Juena, near 
Bohol. Two of them now in the British Museum are not full grown ; the third is larger. 
Rumour has it that this particular reef was annihilated shortly afterwards through volcanic 
action, and certaiuly no Coxus gloria-maris have been found since that time (1838) either 
in this or any other locality. It may, therefore, lay claim to being almost as extinct as the 
Great Auk, or Dodo.—J. C. M. 
J.C., viii., July 1895. 
