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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



DALL, William Healey — Continued. 



Science (New series), ii, No. 57, Dec. 20, 



1895, pp. 855, 856. 



A review of a cat.alogue based on the litera- 

 ture and on the colloctioiis made by Mr. Stearns. 

 A portion of these collections is now in the 

 National Museum. 



[Review of] Dio Gastropotlen der 



Plankton-Expedition. Hy 1 )r. H. Sim- 

 roth. Kiel and Leipsic, Lipsius and 

 Fischer. 1895. 4to, pp. 1-206, pis. 1-22. 



Science (New series), iii, No. 54, J.an. 10, 



1896, p. 69. 



A revimv of the important work on tlie Plank- 

 ton gastropods by Siniroth, published by 

 Lipsius and Fischer. 



New data on Spirilla. 



Science (New series), in, No. 59, Feb. 14, 

 1896, pp. 243-245. 

 From specimens of Spirula in the National 

 Museum collection theauthor is enabled to cor. 

 rect certain errors in the Challenger Monograph 

 of Spinda by Huxley and Pelseneer, and to 

 show the probability that this animal, though 

 able to swim, is generally sessile in deep water 

 on stones or other solid objects. 



On some new species of Scala. 



Nautilus, IX, No. 10, Feb., 1896, pp. Ill, 



112. 



Description of an Oligocene, a Miocene, and 



one recent species of Scala represented in the 



collection of the National Museum and that of 



Mr. W. G. Mazyck. 



[Review of] Geological biology ; an 



introduction to the geological history 

 of organisms, by Henry S. Williams. 

 New York, 1895, pp. i-xx, 1-395, with 

 illns. 



Science (New series), in, No. 64, Mar. 20, 

 1896, pp. 445-447. 

 A review of the work in question, illustrat- 

 ing its scope and character. 



Geographical notes on Alaska. 



Bull. Am. Qeograjihical Soc, xxvni, No. 1, 

 Mar., 1896, pp. 1-20. 

 Summary of geographic notes made during 

 the summer of 1895 together with cartographic 

 data on the Aleutian region and some anthro- 

 pological notes on native map drawing. 



The so-called Jeannette relics. 



National Geographic Magazine, vii, No. 3, 

 Mar., 1896, pp. 93-98. 

 In this paper the authenticity of the so- 

 called Jeannette relics, found off the coast of 

 Greenland in 1884, is questioned and discussed, 

 together with the bearing of the discovery on 

 Nansen's polar explorations. 



DALL, William Healey — Continued. 

 The Russo-Araerican telegraph pro- 

 ject of 1864-1867. 



National Oeographic Magazine, \\\, No. 3, 

 Miir., 1890, pp. no, 111. 

 This is a brief account of the chief facts 

 connected with the expedition referred to 



Diagnoses of new tertiary fossils 



from the southern United States. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvin, No. 1035, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 21-46. 

 Descriptions of forty-three new species, two 

 new subgenera, one new section, and live new 

 varieties, chiefly of Miocene and Oligocene fos- 

 sils from the southern states and the Antilleaii 

 region. The Opisthobranchiata, Terebrida'. 

 Conidne, and UmboniidEB furnish most of the 

 species. The presence of the Egyptian genus 

 Oarolia is for the first time noted in American 

 beds. 



Diagnoses of new molJusks from the 



survey of the Mexican boundary. 



Proc. v. S. Nat. Mus., xvni. No. 1033, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 1-6. 

 Descriptions of eleven new species, one new 

 variety and one new subgenus in the Mnseuni 

 collection, chietly of land shells collected by Dr. 

 E. A. Mearns in the vicinity of the Mexican 

 boundary. 



Diagnoses of new species of mollusks 



from the northwest coast of America. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvni. No. 1034, Apr 

 28, 1896, pp. 7-20. 

 Descriptions of twenty-seven new species 

 and two new genera of marine mollusks 

 dredged on the west coast of America by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. 

 Types of these species are in the National 

 Museum collection. 



New species of Leda from the Pacific 



coast. 



Nautilus, X, No. 1, May, 1896, pp. 1, 2. 

 Descriptions of three new species of Leda in 

 the National Museum, from the western coast 

 of the United States. 



[Review of] Text-book of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, Part ii, Mollusca. By 

 Arnold Lang. Translated by H. M. 

 and M. Bernard. London and New 

 York, Macmillan & Co. 1896. 8vo, 

 pp. xvi-f 618, with illus. 



Science (New series), in. No. 75, June 5, 

 1896, pp. 847-849. 

 Eeview of the work mentioned, with correc- 

 tions of inaccuracies therein. 



Note on Neritina sliowalteri, Lea, 



Nautilus. X, No. 2, June, 1896, pp. 13-15. 

 The types of this species in the National 



