106 THE NAUTILUS. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



REPORT ON THE TURTON COLLECTION OF SOUTH AFRICAN MA- 

 RINE MOLLUSKS, with additional notes on other South African 

 shells contained in the United States Museum. By Paul Bartsch. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 91 Pp. xii + 305, 54 plates. The basis 

 of this report was a collection made by Lieut. Col. W. H. Tur- 

 ton, late Royal Engineers, at Port Alfred. This collection, made 

 on the beach within 10 miles of the village, without dredging, 

 contained 721 species. Other South African materials, notably 

 the shells collected by William Stimpson on the North Pacific 

 Exploring Expedition, in 1853, have also been studied. Al- 

 though Mr. E. A. Smith, Mr. Geo. B. Sowerby and others have 

 described many species .from this fauna in the past few years, 

 Dr. Bartsch found over 200 new species to define. All are well 

 figured. New descriptions and figures are given of many briefly 

 described species of Gould, from the type-specimens. 



A list is given of nearly 1500 species reported from South 

 Africa, not contained in the National Museum, with the sugges- 

 tion that the specimens should be compared with material from 

 the type localities of the several species, as he has found, in 

 many instances, that South African shells which have been 

 identified with species of other regions, are not specifically the 

 same, though superficially similar. 



A full bibliography is given, references to literature being 

 omitted in the text. 



The large number of new forms described and figured, with 

 the full census of previous records, give this work a high value 

 for those concerned with the South African marine fauna. It 

 must become their book for constant reference, as Krauss's 

 classic, "Die Siidafrikanischen Mollusken " was for a former 



generation of mollusk students. 



H. A. P. 



MOLLUSCAN WORLD. Compiled by C. R. Orcutt. 208+62 pp., 

 8vo, San Diego, 1915. This is a collection of records, descrip- 

 tions and notes from a multitude of sources. With the excep- 

 tion of a list of shells found by the author around Hartland, 

 Vermont (pp. 1-6), it is confined to species of California, Baja 



