tL76 K. J. Bush — Notes on the Family PyramidellidcB. 



There were in existence at that time three or rather four 

 small collections of species belonging to the genera Turbo nilla 

 and Odostomia of special interest ; one at the Museum at 

 Amherst College; one at the State Museum at Albany, Few 

 York ; one at the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia ; and 

 the fourth in the National Museum at Washington. The first 

 contained the types of C. B. Adams ;* the second the speci- 

 mens used in W. G. Binney's Gould ;f the third those who 

 by G. W. Tryon in his Manual of Conchology ; and the last 

 the species described by Dr. Dall;}; from Florida. 



On visiting Amherst College I found that the C. B. Adams' 

 specimens had been misplaced, [and for the time lost track of, 

 (I understand they were subsequently studied at the National 

 Museum). Professor John W. Clarke, then in charge of the 

 Albany Museum, failed to find the specimens belonging to 

 this group in the Gould collection. On request, those at Phila- 

 delphia were loaned me for study and proved of so great 

 interest that I published a short report on them with one plate 

 in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy, in 1899. § 

 Cotypes and other specimens were also sent me by Dr. Dall. 



After several months of arduous work I had the collection 

 ready for the descriptions of the numerous new species, fine 

 figures of which had been prepared and arranged in plates. 

 This work was then laid aside for other of more importance on 

 different groups of mollusks ; and most unfortunately has never 

 been completed and published; although an attempt was being 

 made to do so in the near future. 



In 1900, jointly with Professor VerrillJ I published a 

 report on the mollusks from the Bermudas, in which we 

 described some new species of Turbonilla and Odostomia and 

 in several instances reestablished some of the genera or sub- 

 genera described by A. Adams, restricting them to definite 

 types for the first time.Tf 



* Descriptions of Supposed New Species of Marine Shells which Inhabit 

 Jamaica. Contributions to Conchology, No. 5, pp. 72-75, 1850. 



f Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, pp. 324-833, text figures, 

 Boston, 1870. 



% On a Collection of Shells sent from Florida by Mr. Henry Hemphill. 

 Proceedings U. S. National Museum, vol. vi, p. 332, Washington, D. C, 1883. 



§ Descriptions of new species of Turbonilla of the western Atlantic *Fauna, 

 with notes on those previously known. Proceedings Academy Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia, pp. 145-177, pi. viii, 1899. 



I Additions to the Marine Mollusca of the Bermudas. Transactions of the 

 Connecticat Academy of Sciences, vol. x, pp. 528-535, pis. Ixiv-lxv. New 

 Haven, Conn., 1900. " 



«T Pyrgostelis Monterosato, 1884 ; type— P. rufa (Philippi). V. & B., 1900 + 

 D. & B., 1904. Mumiola A. Adams, 1864; type — M. spirata A. Adams, 

 1860. V. & B. , 1900 + D. & B. , 1904 (not Mumiola Monterosato, 1884= Odos- 

 tomiella B. D. & D., 1883). Mormula A. Adams, 1864; tvpe — M. rissoina 

 A. Adams. V. & B., 1900 + D. & B., 1904. Cyclodostomia Sacco, 1892; 



