MOLLUSC A. 417 



and Annulata are treated of : Arenicokt, Spirorbis, Coronula, 

 BaJanus, Sabcllariu, Tvrebella, Amphitrite, Pherusa, Pecti- 

 naria, Siphostoma, Ditrupa, Creusia, Pyrgoma, Tubicinella. 



Of tlie Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under 

 the command of Captain Sir E. Belcher., during the years 

 1831-42, two Parts have appeared in 1814 (6 and 7), and 

 in 1845 one Part (8), containing Mollusca. This division 

 is arranged by Hinds. As the section relating to the Mol- 

 lusca is brought to a close in the 8th part, it appears con- 

 venient to report upon the whole at once. The work 

 contains descriptions and figures of a great number of new 

 species, most of which have already been published in the 

 Annals of Natural History and in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society. Each part contains seven coloured 

 plates on copper by G. B. Sowerby, jun. Malacology 

 receives no additions from this work, as the shells only are 

 described. 



Menke has given, as a pragmatic introduction to his 

 Zeitschrift fur Malaco-Zoologie, p. 1, an essay, " Standpunkt 

 und Bediirfmss der Malacozoologischcn Literatur" (Condition 

 and requirements of Malacozoological Literature). 



Furthermore, by the same author, we have contributions : 

 on the most ancient history of the Mollusca (Zeitschrift, 

 p. 17, and in the following numbers), in which he refers 

 (p. 65) to Homer and (p. 145) Hesiod. In Homer but 

 very few Molluscs are mentioned. The rr/'Ofa (Iliad. 16, 747) 

 Menke is inclined to explain as Oysters, or at all events for 

 an edible Mollusc. In the Odyssey (v, 432) Ulysses, when 

 clinging to a rock, is compared to the TrouAuVovc (probably 

 Octopus vulgaris.) The helmet of the frogs, in the War of 

 the Frogs and Mice, 165 and 258, is very cleverly shown by 

 Menke to be the Limnteus stagnalis. 



Hesiod (f'pya /cat tjjUEgmi, v. 522, 523) terms the marine 

 polypes boneless, which leads to the conclusion that the 

 genus Octopus is signified. Ib. v. 569, the Snail is called 

 the harbinger of spring. 



In the Comptes rendus, xix, p. 1076, a Memoir by 



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