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The illustrations of all the species by Sowerby are generally 

 very life-like, although not finely executed. 



There is no doubt that the publication of this work will be as 

 great a success pecuniarily to its liberal publishers as it is scien- 

 tifically to its author. 



A Manual of the Mollusca : A Treatise of Recent and Fossil 

 Shells. By Dr. S. P. Woodward. Second edition. With an appen- 

 dix of Recent and Fossil Concbological Discoveries to the Present Time. 

 By Ralph Tate. 12mo. 518 pp. and 85 pp., and 24 plates. London, 

 1868. 



A new edition of this, the most valuable of the smaller works 

 on the classification of shells, was much wanted, and Mr. Tate 

 has supplied the want in a manner that, on the whole, may be 

 considered satisfactory. It is, perhaps, expecting too' much to 

 ask for entire accuracy in a work of this character, and, accord- 

 ingly, we find some errors in the arrangement of the genera, 

 occurring in the United States and its coasts. It is scarcely 

 worth while to particularize these errors and omissions, however, 

 as they are not of great importance. The work has been care- 

 fully prepared, and gives evidence of a large acquaintance with 

 the subject. It will receive a warm welcome from concbological 

 students. 



Conchologia Iconica. By G. B. Soweebt. Parts 278, 279. London, April, 

 1869. 



Tellina, plates 55 — 58, concluding the Monograph, which em- 

 braces 345 species, many of which are, however, only nominal. 



T. Brazieri, Sowb. Port Jackson. 



" Shanghcensis, Sowb. Shanghai. 



" compressissima, " Japan. 



" crasseplicata, " Sandwich Isles. 



" semi-inflata, " Loc. ? 



*' semiaspera, Deshayes. Australia ? 



" 2)arva, Sowb. Loc. ? 



" politisshna, Sowb. Loc. ? 



" amphidesmoides, Sowb. Loc. ? 



" lenticularis, Sowb. Japan. 



Atys. 5 plates, complete. 



A. amygdala, Sowb. Loc? 

 " Guildingii, " St. Vincents. 

 " attenuata, " Loc. ? 



" poreellana, Guilding. Hab. ^'Kagosima, Western 

 States." We have not yet annexed Japan. 

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