Guide to the Mollusc an Literature 499 



Symposium on "Methods of Collecting and Preserving Mollusks." Annual Report, 

 American Malacological Union, 1941. Several authors. Excellent. Write: 

 Secretary, A. M. U., Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo 1 1, N.Y. 



CHAPTER VI— HOW TO KNOW AiMERICAN SEASHELLS 



Malacology and the Official List of Generic Names. C. G. Aguayo. 1949. The 



Nautilus^ vol. 63, pp. 17-19. 

 Illustrated Glossary of Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, Amphineura. Beatrice Bnrch. 



1950. Minutes loj, Conch. Soc. Southern Calif. Mimeographed. $1.50. 



Pelecypoda glossary also available. 

 Systematics and the Origin of Species. E. Mayr. 1942. Columbia Univ. Press, 



N.Y. 334 pp. Good bibliography. 

 Procedure in Taxonomy. E. T. Schenk and J. H. McMasters. 1948. Stanford 



Univ. Press, Calif. Revised ed. by A. M. Keen and S. W. Muller. 



GEOGRAPHICAL GUIDE 



ATLANTIC COAST 



General 



List of Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic Coast from Labrador to Texas. C. W. 

 Johnson. 1934. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 40, pp. 1-204. 2632 species 

 listed with ranges. About 757© complete, some names now obsolete. Bibli- 

 ography very good, with over 500 entries. No illustrations or descriptions. 



Johnsonia. Monographs of the Marine Molhisca of the Western Atlantic. 1942- 

 Vols. I and 2 (600 pp., quarto size now complete). Museum Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge 38, Alass. Thorough treatment of various genera with 

 excellent plates, descriptions, ranges, records and collecting localities. W. J. 

 Clench, ed. 



A Preliminary Catalogue of the Shell-bearing Marine Mollusks and Brachiopods 

 of the Southeastern Coast of the United States. W. H. Dall. 1889 (and a 

 1903 reprint). Bull. 57, U. S. Nat. Mus., 232 pp., 45 pis. Illustrations very 

 useful, ranges fairly good, but the names out-of-date. Out of print. 



Blake Reports. Reports on the Results of the Dredging ... in the Gulf of 

 Mexico and the Caribbean Sea by the . . . Steamer 'Blake'. 1886. Pt. I. 

 Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. W. H. Dall. Bnll. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 

 12, pp. 171-318, 9 pis.; 1889, Pt. II, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Ibid., vol. 

 18, pp. 1-492, 30 pis. Numerous deep-sea species with excellent drawings. 



Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida. W. H. Dall. i 890-1903. 6 parts. 

 Trails. Wagner Inst., vol. 3, 1654 pp., 60 pis. A monumental work containing 

 many important revisions. Contains many recent species, but the nomen- 

 clature is out-of-date. 



