106 THE NAUTILI'S. 



Not content with the labor of naming and cataloging Mr. Stearns' 

 shells, Mr. Pilsbry has searched the literature and made a catalogue, 

 not only of the shells collected by Mr. Stearns, but of all the species 

 described from or assigned to Japan by earlier authors, thereby pro- 

 ducing a most handy list which no student of mollusks can afford to 

 be without. Notwithstanding the care with which the Monographs 

 of Dunker and Lischke were made, the present catalogue enumerates 

 about 20 per cent, more species than the latest of them. In addition 

 to the list of marine mollusks and brachiopods, the hind and fresh" 

 water shells collected by Mr. Stearns are catalogued, and also a 

 supplementary series of Loo Choo Island species, obtained by a 

 native collector in Mr. Stearns employ. The plates and presswork 

 are excellent, aud the work, as a whole, is creditable to all concerned 

 in its production, and cannot fail to be useful to students. 



- JJ* H. D. 



PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE MARINE MOLLUSKS OF THE 

 PACIFIC COAST OF CANADA, with notes on their distribution. By 

 Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 

 Vol. 1 (2d series), pages 17 to 100. This catalogue is very complete 

 and full (if interesting notes on distribution, etc. The number of 

 species recorded is 284, to which is added a list of 67 land and fresh- 

 water species, making the total number of British Columbian Mol- 

 lusca at present known, 351. 



BULLETINS OF AMERK-AN PALEONTOLOGY, Vol. I, No. 3. NEO- 



CKN T K MOLLUSCA OF TEXAS, OR FOSSILS FROM THE DEEP WlvLL AT 



( IALVESTON. By G. D. Harris. In this Bulletin, 19 new species 

 and f> new varieties are described and figured, together with notes 

 and figures of other species. Most of the specimens were obtained 

 from a depth ranging from 2100 to 2920 feet. Up to this date no 

 other marine Neocene fossils are known from the Gulf slope west of 

 the Mississippi. The Bulletin contains 32 pages and 4 well executed 

 plates. 



MoLI.rsi,H'l> Ki:rUEILLIS SUR LES COTES DE LA TuNESIE ET DE 



L'ALUKRII:, par Ph. Dautzenberg (Mi? ID. Soc. Zool. de France, 

 1895, p. 363). List, with descriptions of some new varieties of 

 Mediterranean shells, and full information on the occurrence of 

 ii iii the Mediterranean Sea. 



ON SOME PLIOCENE FRESH-WATER FOSSILS OF CALIFORNIA. 

 ON LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS OK LOWER CALIFORNIA, 

 No. 5. 



