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442 Couthouy^s Description of a new species^ ^c. 



tioHj there is as little question it would have been received 

 as such by us. There is no reason why we should not 

 adopt a similar course on this side the water. 



Our situation is peculiarly favorable for the procuring 

 of new objects of Natural History. The researches of 

 a large portion of our community, are daily extended 

 into new regions, abounding with such objects. We 

 have, doubtless, in our several collection^, many speci- 

 mens yet undescribed ; and why should we, through 

 indolence or timidity, defer making them known, till at 

 last some one abroad, as fortunate and less hesitating than 

 ourselves, does so, and deprives us of the opportunity of 

 casting our mite into the great treasury of Natural His- 

 tory ? 



I have been led to these remarks, by tbe fact of there 

 having been for a long. time, in my own limited cabinet, 

 a number of shells, which have only very recently been 

 described^ and of which I should have long since given 

 descriptions myself, but for the cautious^prudence of some 

 of my friends, and the cry of " oh there is no doubt it has 

 been described by somebody already.'' So far as in my 

 power, I am determined to prevent such mortifications in^ 

 future, by describing at once, whatever there may be good 

 and sufficient grounds for believing new objects. ■ 



The shell before the Society belongs to the third group 

 of Marginell^ according to Kiener's arrangement, hav- 

 ing the spire, wholly or partially concealed by a vitreous 

 deposit. ^ • 



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I do myself a pleasure in naming this shell after my 

 friend D, Humphreys Storer, M. D., whose ardent love of 

 Natural Science, and devotion to its advancement among 

 US, are too well known, to require this feeble tribute as 

 any thing more than a token of my own personal sense 



