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the " Collcotiou Drapaniaud," in wliidi he has followed the example 

 of Hanley, who so carefully studied the Liunean Collections. At 

 home, we note a further instalment of Taylor's "Monograph of the 

 British Land and Fresh-water Mollusca." 



A pleasing feature of the year's work is the greater zeal in uniting 

 malacological with conchological knowledge, betokening a healthy 

 determination to deal wherever possible with sets of organs rather 

 than mere organological detail. 



On the Pala3ontological side we note two important works dealing, 

 the one chiefly and the other wholly, with the Opisthobranchiata. 

 I refer to M. Cossmann's memoir in the " Mem. Soc. Geol. France," 

 Paleont., torn, v, mem. 14, and his "Essais de Paleoconchologie Com- 

 paree " the first fascicule of which appeared in February, 1895. The 

 latter great work by our distinguished Foreign Member, when com- 

 pleted, is to contain brief diagnoses of all genera and subgenera of fossil 

 Mollusca, and when the characters of these specially involve living 

 forms the latter will be described. Ranges in time are given in much 

 detail, and the work cannot fail to be of great service to Malacologists, 



M. H. Douville has entered upon another masterly memoir on the 

 Hippurites.' 



The "Zeitschr. Dcutschen geologischen Gesellschaft" for the year 

 contains interesting papers on the Molluscan Fauna of certain Cre- 

 taceous beds by Giinther Maas, and a summary of our knowledge of the 

 Ammonite genus Qtmistedticeras by Weissermel. The first portion 

 of a large work on the Cephalopoda of the Cretaceous of SoTithern 

 India has been issued by the Palaeontological Institute of the Vienna 

 University, from the pen of Dr. Franz Kossmat. This reviews the 

 work of ytoliczka and brings it up to date, and adds much informa- 

 tion on the subject generally. The author has had access to a quantity 

 of new material, and his work is largely based on the study of type 

 specimens. 



The Pelecypoda of the Devonian beds of the Rhine have been 

 monographed by Dr. L. Beushausen in the " Abhandlungen Konig. 

 Preuss. Geol. Landesanstalt," with an accompanying atlas of 38 plates. 



The monograph of the Mollusca of the Tertiary of Piedmont and 

 Liguria, commenced by Professor Bellardi, and after his death con- 

 tinued by Professor F. Sacco, of Turin, has received another instalment. 

 It deals with the Cerithiida?, Triforidae, Cerithiopsidaj, and Diasto- 

 midse ; and is notorious for the creation once again of a large number 

 of " varieties " which Professor Sacco, and nobody but he, would 

 appear to recognize. 



It is with much pleasure that I draw your attention to the appear- 

 ance of the first volume of the " Pal ajonto graph ia Italia," published 

 under the direction of Professor Mario Canavari, of the Geological 

 Museum of the University of Pisa. It is intended that this work 

 shall eventually describe the whole of the fossils of Italy, after the 

 example set by our own Palaeontographical Society ; and in the part 



' "Mem. Soc. Geol. France," torn, v, fasc. 4. 



