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if imperfect, and when those of all classes are enumerated the list re- 
mains still extremely meager, and so far without any first-class general 
work of reference. 
In the absence of a good collection of named specimens from the 
region, it is difficuit and tedious work identifying specimens connected, 
as the South Florida shells are, with the West Indian fauna. Conse- 
quently it is with a certain diffiidence that I attempted, at Mr. Hemp- 
hi'l’s request, to work up the extremely interesting collection he has 
given to the National Museum. The only catalogues relating to South 
Florida are extremely imperfect though praiseworthy attempts. Con- 
rad’s work was never complete and is antiquated; the paper of Mr. 
Melvill is marred by the inaccuracies of identification for which the 
present Mr. Sowerby is famous; Mr. Calkins’ work is the best of all, 
but would have been more useful if the specimens actually collected by 
island of Key West, 1871-72, by James Cosmo Melvill, M. A., F.L. 8S. [In the Journal 
of Conchology, Leeds, vol. 3, Nos. 5 and 6, pp. 155-173, 1881. ] 
CATALOGUE OF West INDIA SHELLS in the collection of Dr. C. M. Poulsen, Copen- 
hagen, by O. A. L. Morch, pp. 16, 8°, 1878. 
HisToIreE [etc.] DE VILE DE CuBa [ete.], Mollusques, par Alecide D’Orbigny. 8° 
2 v. and atlas, folio, Paris, 1841—’53. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONCHOLOGY, conducted by C. B. Adams, vol. 1, 8°, New York, 
1849-52. 
REMARKS on some species of West India marine shells [ete.], by Henry Krebs. [In 
Aunals Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1866, pp. 394-398. ] 
MOLLusca of the Bermudas, by J. Matthew Jones, esq., F.L.S. [In Trans. Nova 
Scotia Inst., i, part ii, 1864, pp. 14-26. ] 
CATALOGUE of recent marine shells found on the coasts of North and South Caro- 
lina, by J. D. Kurtz. 8°, pp. 9, Portland, 1860 [also a paper by Kurtz and Stimpson, 
in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. iv, 115. ] 
DESCRIPTIONS of new genera and species of shells, by Augustus A. Gould, M. D. 
[In Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., viii, pp. 280-284, 1862, contains descriptions of severay 
species of small shells obtained by officers of the United States Coast Survey in sound- 
ing off the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas. ] 
MOLLUSCA OF THE ARGO EXPEDITION to the West Indies, 1876, by the Rey. H. H. 
Higgins, M. A. Museum Report No. 1 [of the Free Public Museum of Liverpool]. 8°, 
pp. 20, 1 plate, Liverpool, 1876. 
AMERICAN MARINE CONCHOLOGY [ete.] from Maine to Florida, by Geo. W. Tryon, 
jr. 8°, pl., Phuadelphia, 1873-74. 
CATALOGUE des Coquilles recuillies 4 la Guadeloupe et ses dépendances, par M. Beau 
[ete.], précédé dune introduction par M. Paul Fischer [Extr® de la Revue coloniale, 
1)ée. 1857. 89, pp. 27; with title on cover. } 
CONTRIBUCION a la fauna malacologica Cubana, por Rafae] Araugo y Molina. 8° 
pp. 315, Habana, 1878-80. 
DrESCRIPTIONS of new species of recent and fossil shells, ete., by T. A. Conrad in Proe. 
Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1846, iii, pp. 19-47, pl. 1, [and elsewhere. ] 
Fauna of Gulf of Paria, etc., by R. J. L. Guppy, F. L. §., Part 1, Molluska. [In 
Proc. Sci. Assoc. of Trinidad, Dec., 1877, vol. ii, No. 3, pp. 134-157. ] 
REPORT on the “‘ Blake” mollusks, by W. H. Dall, Bulletin Mus. Comp. Zodlogy, ix, 
No. 2, pp. 33-144, July-Dee., 1-81. [Dredgings in the Gulf of Mexico.] Also numerons 
papers on particular species or groups of species, including those of the region, by 
Say, Binney, Bland, Tryon, Stimpson, Stearns in Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. and 
Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Gibbes, and others. 
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