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Mr. Bland, and I am now collecting all the living specimens of 
the various land and fresh water shells I can procure to for- 
ward to him. I have no doubt that I shall have some interes- 
ting news of them to communicate to the Society at a future 
day. 
“ The tenacity of life into many of the land molluscs is so 
great, that 1 do not anticipate any difficulty in forwarding 
them alive into America, I had a quantity of the Helix rufa 
and Rufozonata, some of them crawled away and mounted on 
the paper of my walls. Seven months afterwards I found two 
of them still alive, about 8 feet from the ground, where they 
had remained motionless all that time, and consequently 
without food. 
“ I have had Papas laid aw r ay for months, especially the P. 
Mauritiana , and on taking them out and placing them on my 
hand, I have been astonished to see thoir little orange colour- 
ed horns appear, and their speckled bodies begin to crawl out. 
Achatinas and Gydostomns will also remain alive without food 
for a considerable period.” 
Le Colonel Pike presente a la Societe les ouvrages sui- 
vants qu’il a reyus des differentes Societes Scientifiques 
des Etats dc PUnion — desirant se mettre en rapport avec 
celle de Maurice : 
1. — Report of the Invertebrata of Massachussets, by A. 
Gould, M. D. ; 
2. — Address delivered on the Centennial Anniversary of 
the birth of Alex. Yon Humboldt, by Louis Agassiz. (De 
la part du Departement de P Agriculture des Etats- Unis.); 
3. — Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory, vol. XII. — Annual Report of the Department of 
Agriculture for 1868. (De la part de l’lnstitution Switli- 
sonienne.) 
4. Annual Report of the Swdthsonian Society for 1868 ; 
Memoirs of the American Academy, new scries ; Proceed- 
ings of the American Academy ; Narrative of a journey 
to Musardu, the capital of the Western Mandingoe, by 
Benjamin Anderson, New York, 1870. 
