174 AMERICAN JOURNAL 



NOTICES AND REVIEWS 



OF 



NEW CONCHOLOGICAL WORKS. 



BY GEO. W. TRYON, JR. 



I.— AMERICAN. 



Repott on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts. Published agreeably 

 to ail order of the Legislature, Second Edition, comprising the Mollusca. 

 By AuGasTOS A. Gould, M.D. Edited by W. G. Binney. 8vo., 524 pp., with 

 twenty-seven chromolithographic plates and over seven hundred wood en- 

 gravings. Boston, 1870. 



The first edition of this Report was published in 1841, and 

 included the Crustacea, Annelida and Radiata. The work be- 

 came scarce many years ago, being highly prized by all persons 

 engaged in conchological pursuits as the only reliable book pub- 

 lished containing descriptions of the marine mollusca of the At- 

 lantic Coast of the United States. The Legislature of Massachu- 

 setts, continuing the wise liberality which has always characterized 

 the educational system of that very enlightened commonwealth, in 

 1865, authorized Dr. Gould to prepare a new edition of his work 

 for publication at the expense of the State. Unfortunately for 

 Conchological Science, Dr. Gould died in 1866, leaving his work 

 in an advanced but incomplete stage. In 1867 Mr. W. G. Bin- 

 ney was appointed by the Governor and Council of Massachusetts 

 to complete the work, " as nearly as possible in accordance with 

 the views and wishes of the author." The selection of Mr. Bin- 

 ney was a happy one, as perhaps no one else could have carried 

 out the above instructions so faithfully. Dr. Gould was the 

 literary executor of Dr. Amos Binney, and edited and published 

 that distinguished Conchologist's magnificent Monograph of the 

 Terrestrial Mollusca of the United States. Mr. W. G. Binney's 

 relations with Dr. Gould were thus most intimate, originat- 



