The Oldroyd Collection.—Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Oldroyd have given their collection of shells to the Leland Stanford Jr. University, and are now permanently employed in the Museum, Mrs. Oldroyd being the curator. The collection has been placed in the Department of Geology and Mining. The Stanford alumni purchased the collection and library of the late Henry Hemphill, which, with the Law collection and several others, forms an unusually fine working series. Mr. and Mrs. Oldroyd have spent about eight weeks at Friday Harbor, Puget Sound and British Columbia making large collections for the Stanford University, California Academy of Science and University of California.

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North Carolina Land Shells.—The following species of land shells were picked from leaf-mold collected at Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, by Samuel G. Gordon while on a mineralogical excursion. The specimens are in the collection of the Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., Gastrocopta contracta Say, G. pentodon Say, Circinaria concava Say, Polita indentata Say, Taxeodonta lamellidens Pils., Gastrodonta elliotti Redf., G. guldaris Say, Euconulus sterkii Dall., Punctum pygmÆum Drap., Carychium exile Lea.—E. G. Vanatta.

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A Correction.—In my little paper, “Descriptions of New West American Marine Mollusks and Notes on Previously Described Forms,” Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 52, pp. 670–671, plate 46, figure 2, 1917, I published Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis) helena from Panama, type Cat. No. 204128, U. S. N. M. Mr. Vignal, of Paris, has been kind enough to call my attention to the fact that the same combination was used by O. Boettger in 1901 for a fossil in his contribution “Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocÄnen Schichten von Kostej im KrassÒ-SzÖrÉnyer Komitat,” in “Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des siebenbÜrgischen Vereins fÜr Naturwissenchaften zu Hermannstadt,” p. 128, 1901. It is therefore necessary to bestow a new designation on my shell, and it may be known as Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis) anaitis.—Paul Bartsch.

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Albinistic Epiphragmophora fidelis.—A few days ago, I had two hours in Gladstone Park. The Park is wooded, and there are large moss-covered rocks. E. fidelis was out freely. I found one light one. The one sent you some years ago was uniform in color. This one shows two distinct dark narrow bands around the lower whorl, but not showing anywhere else. This is the fourth one I have found in the Park in twenty years or more, though I have been there often.

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The many friends of Dr. Hermann von Ihering will hear with deep regret that he has been removed by political intrigue from his position of Director of the Museu Paulista at Sao Paulo, Brazil. This museum was founded by Dr. von Ihering. His eminence as a zoologist and unceasing activity as an investigator of the South American fauna, had won for it an honorable place among scientific institutions. We understand that his successors are men without knowledge of the biological sciences. As the only scientific assistant, Mr. Rudolph von Ihering has resigned, it appears that the scientific activity of the State Museum of Sao Paulo has come to an end—a real calamity to American zoology and paleontology.

Dr. von Ihering is located at present at Hansa de Joinville, State of Santa Catharina. He is in good health, and is engaged in the preparation of his work: “Die biogeographischen Grundgesetze,” several chapters of which will deal with mollusks.—H. A. P. & C. W. J.

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PSORONAIAS KUXENSIS FRIERSON.

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EPIPHRAGMOPHORA CALLISTODERMA PILS. & FERR.

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UNIO TETRALASMUS SAY.

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ZACHRYSIA RAMSDENI PILS.

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Z. EMARGINATA PFR.

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