OF CONCHOLOGY. 79 



NOTICES AND REVIEWS 



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NEW CONCHOLOGICAL WORKS 



BY GEO. W. TRYON, JR. 



I.— AMERICAN. 



Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. ix. No. 8. 



Dec , 1869. 



Additional Notes on the G-eograpJiical Distribution of Land 

 Shells in the West Indies. Bj Thomas Bland. 



Contains additions to the list of species given by the author in 

 the seventh volume of the Annals. 



On the names applied to Pisidium, a genus of Corhiculadce. 

 Bj Temple Prime. 



The history of Physemoda, Bafinesque, Galilej'a, Pisiim, Gray 

 (Muhlfeldt), Musculium, Link, Puglesa, Pera and Cordula, 

 Leach, are given. 



List of the species of Mollusca found in the vicinity of 

 North Comvay, Neiv Hampshire. By Temple Prijie. 



Report upon the Oyster Resources of Maryland, to the General 

 Assembly. By Hunter Davidson. 8vo, 20 pp. Annapolis, 1870. 



The author, Avho is commanding oflScer of the State Oyster 

 Police Force, says that oysters are being rapidly exterminated 

 from its waters by immense amount of dredging at periods when 

 .he beds are full of young moUusks, which are almost totally de- 



