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MOLLU3KS OF OUR SOUTHEASTERN COAST The United States 

 National Museum has recently published a reprint of its Bulletin No. 

 37 : "A preliminary catalogue of the shell-bearing marine mollusks 

 and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of the United States, with 

 illustrations of many of the species," by William Healey Ball. The 

 first edition of this work, published in 1889, having become exhausted, 

 the reprint has been found advisable to meet the requests for copies. 



The body of the reprint is a verbatim copy of the earlier edition, 

 but the usefulness of the work has been much increased by the addi- 

 tion of 21 new plates, containing 188 figures. 



It is a classified list of the shell-bearing marine mollusks foil ml 

 bi-tween Cape Hatteras and Mexico. For each species the author 

 has indicated the extreme northern and southern range, and some of 

 the more important intermediate localities ; the range in depth ; the 

 range in time, and its occurrence in Europe, if it be known to occur 

 there. The average length of specimens of part of the species is 

 given. 95 plates, containing many hundreds of excellent figures, 

 illustrate a great many of the species. The reprint is obtainable by 

 those properly entitled to receive it W. B. M. 



LIST OF BRITISH NON-MARINE MOLLUSCA By B. B. Wood 

 ward (Journal of Conchology, x, pp. 352-367, Oct. 1, 1903). 

 British conchologists have been among the most conservative in 

 matters of nomenclature and taxonomy. For many years it seemed 

 that no material innovation from the arrangement in Jeffrey's Brit- 

 ish Conchology could obtain recognition in the non-marine mollusks 

 of the tight little isle. In the last few years all this has been 

 changed. The great progress of malacological science abroad and 

 the i-evival at home, signalized by the formation of the liveliest 

 Malacological Society in the world, has finally lead to the revision of 

 the British list now before us. The general classification followed is 

 that of Fischer, but greatly modified in details of family and generic 

 divisions. A few points of especial interest to American concholo- 

 gists may be mentioned here. The name Vitrea radiatula is pre- 

 ferred to that of V- haminonis. Mr. Woodward concludes that 

 " there is a costate form of Vallonia in America distinct from the 



