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NOTICES AND REVIEWS 



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NEW CONCHOLOGICAL AYOEKS. 



BY GEO. W. TRYON, JPw • 



BRITISH. 



Report of the Thirty-ninth Meeting of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science ; held at Exeter in August, 18G9. 8vo. 

 London. 



On the Land and Fresh-ivater Mollusca of Nicaragua. By 

 Ralph Tate. 



Conchologla Indica ; beirEc illustratious of the Land and Fresh-water Shells 

 of British India. Edited by Sylvants Haxley and William Theobald. 

 Part l,4to, 20 plates, colored. London, 1870. 



A very valuable and much-needed work, prepared by gentle- 

 men who thoroughly understand their subject. The text does 

 not include descriptions, but full synonymy and localities. 



Annals and Magazine cf Natural History. Vol. 5, No. 30. London, 

 June, 1870. 



On some Species of Prohoscidiferous G-asteropods lohicli in- 

 luibit the Seas of Japan. By Arthur Adams. 



This paper is a continuation of a list of Japanese Gasteropods 

 noticed by me on several previous occasions. 



The species of the families Tritonidas, Buccinida^, Fasciolari- 

 idjfi, Volutidse, Cassidte, Doliidge and Sycotypidse, collected by 

 the author, are enumerated. The folIo\Ying are new : 

 Simpulum lirostoma, Epidromus reticosus, 



" papillosum, Volutharpa Fischeriana, 



" nodiliratum, Zeuxis clandestina, 



" tringa, Cyllene gibba. 



Cabestana dorsuosa. 



