Journal of conchology . rsonatum. Taking everything into con-sideration I could not escape the conclusion that the P. pusillum ofMr. Woodward was Jenynss P. nitidum. Mr. C. Oldham, with whom I had discussed the subject, was inBath recently, and took advantage of the opportunity to examineJenynss shells in the Museum of the Bath Royal Literary and Scien-tific Institution. The collection includes a drawer of specimens ofSphterium and Pisidium. The shells are mounted on tablets \ nolocalities are given, but the names are written on the tablets inJenynss hand. One tablet bears the inscription :— T
Journal of conchology . rsonatum. Taking everything into con-sideration I could not escape the conclusion that the P. pusillum ofMr. Woodward was Jenynss P. nitidum. Mr. C. Oldham, with whom I had discussed the subject, was inBath recently, and took advantage of the opportunity to examineJenynss shells in the Museum of the Bath Royal Literary and Scien-tific Institution. The collection includes a drawer of specimens ofSphterium and Pisidium. The shells are mounted on tablets \ nolocalities are given, but the names are written on the tablets inJenynss hand. One tablet bears the inscription :— The above are the identical specimens figured in my Mono-graph of the British species of Cyclas and Pisidiufn, in the fourthvolume of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society,pll. 19-21. : ON THE MISATPLICATION OF TISIDIUM NAMES. 237 Mr. Oldham writes of the specimen of P. nitidujii wYxxch. was figuredby Jenyns and is indicated on this tablet by the words Pi. 20, fig. 7: Right valve. Left
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