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Dall, William Healey— Coutiuued. 



count of Plioladomya paciflca 

 (which was written first) by an 

 accident wa.3 published two years 

 later. 



• Resultats clii Voyage du S. Y. 



Belgica. Rapports Scieutiflques. 



Zoology. 



Science (n. s.) sxix, No. 



741, Mar. 12, 1909, pp. 



421, 422. 



A review of the reports of the 



Belgica expedition to the Ant- 



.arctic. 



Biographical memoir of William 



More Gabb, 1839-1878. 



Nat. Acad. Sci. Biographies, 

 VI, March, 1909, pp. 347- 

 361, with portrait. 

 A biography of a former valued 

 collaborator of the National Mu- 

 seum, together with a bibliography 

 of his scientific writings, read be- 

 for the Academy in November, 

 1908. 

 Furtlier data ou Poll's Generic 



Names. 



Proe. Malncol. Soc. London, 



VIII, pt. 4, April, 1909, 



pp. 251, 252. 



A supplement to a paper by 



Jukes Browne in the June issue 



of the periodical, correcting some 



errors and adding some new data. 



Paradioiie n. n. vice Cliiouella. 



Proc. Malacol. Soc. Lon- 

 don, VIII, pt. 4, April, 

 1909, p. 197. 

 Paradione is proposed for Chio- 

 nclla Cossman, preoccupied by 

 Swainson. 



Some new South American 



Landshells. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 

 52, Quar. issue, pt. 5, No. 

 1866, May 11, 1909, pp. 

 361-364, pi. XXXVII. 

 Some new shells in the National 

 Museum from South America are 

 described and figured. Plenro- 

 dontc {Lahyrinthus) tenacniiini . 

 Hclicina heigliwayana, and Odon- 

 tostomus hranneri are described 

 as new, and Odontostomus secti- 

 laliris Pfeiffer is figured for com- 

 parison. 



Fru Signe Rink. 



Science (n. s.) xxix, No. 



751, May 21, 1909, p. 



806. 



A brief obituary notice of an 



old correspondent of the National 



Museum. 



Dall, William Healey. Contribu- 

 tions to the Tertiary Paleontology 

 of the Pacific Coast, i. The Miocene 

 of Astoria and Coos Bay, Oregon. 



> Prof. Paper, U. S. Gcol. 

 Surv., No. 59, April, 1909, 

 pp. 1-278, pis. i-xxiii. 

 This paper, based on material in 

 the National Museum, contains a 

 historical discussion of the explo- 

 ration of the geology of Astoria 

 and Coos Bay ; a summary of 

 stratigraphical observations by the 

 author and Dr. J. S. Diller, of the 

 Survey ; a geological map and sec- 

 tion of the exposures at Coos Bay ; 

 a systematic account of the Mio- 

 cene invertebrate fauna ; a descrip- 

 tion by Dr. F. W. True of a fossil 

 se.a lion discovered in the Coos 

 Bay Miocene, with a summary of 

 the described species of fossil sea 

 lions ; twelve appendices contain- 

 ing reprints of the text of as many 

 rare and out of print papers on 

 Pacific Coast Tertiary Paleontol- 

 ogy by Conrad, Shumard, and Car- 

 penter ; a bibliography of papers 

 on Post Eocene Pacific coast Ter- 

 tiary and recent invertebrates, 

 taking up the subject where it 

 was left by Carpenter in his Brit- 

 ish Association report of 1864, and 

 carrying it to 1905, together with 

 a few later papers. This paper 

 was completed, except for a few 

 additions to the bibliography, in 

 May, 1907, and the delay in its 

 publication will account for the 

 absence of certain references in 

 the text which might otherwise be 

 expected. 



The descriptive portion includes 

 the revision of the nomenclature, 

 under the International Code, of 

 certain groups of the Yolutidce, 

 the Fasciolariidw, the Muricidw, 

 the Scalidw, the Cassididm, the 

 Doliidw, the Trichotropidw, the 

 Littorinidw, the GalyptraeidcB, the 

 NaticidcB, the TurWyiidec, and Tro- 

 cMdw. 



The new forms described and 

 figured are as follows : Scaphander 

 conradi, S. oregonensis; Turris 

 coosensis, canimani, coH, and 

 impecunia; Bathytoma gaMiana; 

 Cancellaria. oregonensis, arnoldi, 

 and hcmphilU; Miopleiona ore- 

 gonensis; Fusinits coosensis; 

 Chrysodomus imperialis, postplan- 

 atus, and bairdii; Liomesus sul- 

 culatus; Molopophorus gahhi; Pur- 

 pura pei-ponderosa; Epitonium 

 rugiferum, condoni, and orego- 

 nense; Oyrineum mediocre (and 



