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can mention to you, Pholadomya caudata, Rom, Cytherea plena. Sow. Cai ivm pro uc 
turn, Protocardium hillanum, Sow, Eriphyla lenticular is, Goldf . Trig on ia sea ra, am 
Inoceramus cripsianus, and labiatus, Pecten curvatus, Gein, &e.. Not one sing e spe 
corresponds with those of the Gault. What wc have are Cenomanian, reac un a t lence 
the highest Senonian. 
“ I hope the revision of the genera of the Peiecypoda will contain something useful. I 
have already received many encouraging letters about the Gasteropoda, althoug ' e 
enumeration must remain very incomplete, but it was the chief reason why I took up 
Peiecypoda with greater zeal. _ , 
“ During my private time I have written a rather long paper on the tertiary crabs of bincl 
“ and Cutch. The work is already at press, and the plates have been lithographed; it wii 
“ appear in a special part of the Palmontologia Indica. I describe two species of Palasocar- 
pilius, 1 Galenopsis, 2 Neptunus, a new genus of the rare family of the Eeucosi cc, an 
two are incompletely characterized. u 
“My zoological work goes slowly forward. I have some remarkable anatomical results 
“ in the Mollusca, and my paper for this year on this group will nearly take a whole number 
“ of the Asiatic Society’s Journal. I will next describe a new Comatula, and to it will add 
some remarks upon the importance of deep sea dredging in the Indian Ocean. e lave iop^ 
“ that the Government will do something, and that the matter will therefore be undertaken. 
, TMs record would be incomplete did it not contain some account aj Dr. I StoMra's soe^l 
We in Calcutta j for several years he lived in a house in Wood Street whew Ui was 
able to give a room to friends visiting him from the country, and had more or less ample 
accommodation for his collections. This latter qualified statement is made in £ 
‘be fact that shelves laden with bottles, packing cases, the boxes materials 
°f living land shells and occasionally live snakes, besides books and other » g ■ 
crowded bis rooms. 
Here, in the midst of these surroundings, be entertained his friends, of whom ^ there 
“ay be said to have been two classes, one consisting mostly of men who were m a =™ate o 
less degree connected with scientific work, and the other of his own compatriots, .with whom 
he identified himself as a leading member of the German club. But this distinction 
sharply defined, as the Germans and other foreign residents included some men , °‘ . ‘ s “ 0 his 
“ science, like Dm. Brandis, Schlich, and Kura, and Stolicaka's frequent inviUtrons to his 
English friends to entertainments given by the German club served m an important de 0 .ee 
to remove any barrier which might exist between the two communities. 
v Among those of the first-named class who partook of bis 
trim working at bis collections, the names of Jerdon, ay, o win , » ’ ^ ^ . 
Mason, Waterhouse, Medlicott, Blanford, Theobald, and Waagcn, with several 
colleagues belonging to the Geological Sm'vey, are the most prominent i tat b®d« 
were others too, mostly travellers or occasional visitors to Calcutta, like 1 . j 
With Allan Hume, too, ho was on terms of close intimacy and friendship an of th > hi h 
opinion and regard which Mr. Hume entertained for him ample testimony wi 11 be iound 
‘be pages „f .. stray Feathers.” Officially, from liis position as a Secretary to the »ove 
“ent, he was able to promote Stolicska’s interests in many ways, and he never lost any 
opportunity which occurred to him of doing so. . , naraelv 
The name of another warm friend of Stoliczka should also be mentioned here, name y, 
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