THE NAUTILUS. 35 



NOTES. 



MR. T. VAN HYNING has recently been appointed Librarian 

 of the Experimental Station, and Director of the Museum of 

 the Florida State University ; his address is now, Florida State 

 University, Gainesville, Florida. 



MODIOLUS DEMISSUS Dillw. and var. GRANOSISSIMUS Sby. 

 Dr. Dall, in the Trans. Wagner Inst., iii, 796, 797, has pointed 

 out that Modiola plicatula Lam. (An. s. Vert., vi, 1819, p. 

 113) is preceded by Mytilus demissus Dillw., Descr. Cat. Rec. 

 Shells, Vol. I, 1817, p. 314, described from Virginia and Caro- 

 lina. He suggests using the name demissa for the southern 

 form with beaded sculpture, and plicatula for the northern 

 specimens with smoother ribs. All the examples from the Caro- 

 linas loaned to me by Mr. Mazyck were the same as the north- 

 ern specimens; so, unless the beaded form actually is also 

 found in Carolina, the name granosissima Sowerby (Proc. 

 Mai. Soc. London, xi, 1914, p. 9) from Andaras, S. America, 

 and Florida, will have to be used for the Florida beaded var- 

 iety. M. plicatula will then become a synonym of demissa 

 Dillw. E. G. VANATTA. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



ON THE ANATOMY OF CONUS TULIPA LINN, AND CONUS TEX- 

 TILE LINN. By H. 0. N. Shaw (The Quarterly Journal of 

 Microscopical Science, Vol. 60, pt. 1, pp. 1-60, April, 1914). 

 A clear and concise account of the anatomy of these two in- 

 teresting shells, illustrated by 6 plates and 12 text-figures. 



ANATOMIE DBS CLAUSILIES DANOISES, I, LES ORGANES GENI- 

 TAUX. Par C. M. Steenberg (Mindeskrift for Japetus Steen- 

 strup, xxix, pp. 1-44, 1914). A well worked-out study, full of 

 interest to workers in the anatomy of land snails. 



THE PLIOCENE MOLLUSC A OF GREAT BRITAIN. By F. W. 

 Harmer (Palaeontographical Society, 1913, pt. 1, pp. 1-200, 



