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are, as a rule, but ill-acquainted with foreign species and varieties." Mr. Cockerell 

 proceeds to review Dr. Wallace's list of peculiar forms (Island Life, new ed.), and 

 gives notes upon a number of interesting varieties. [We fear it would be unwise 

 to lay any great stress upon the importance of slight varieties. While thoroughly 

 endorsing Mr. Cockerell's remarks re an acquaintance with foreign species and 

 varieties, and a more scientific treatment of the external morphology of the 

 Mollusca — shell and animal — we fear the root of the evil lies in conchologists 

 being mere shell collectors and entirely ignoring the presence of a mollusc in their 

 dilettante studies of the shell]. 



Irish L. and F. Mollusca. (Irish Nat., p. 45, 1892.) 



Dr. Scharff commences what promises to be a very interesting account of the 

 Mollusca of Ireland. 



Odostomia albelra, Loven, in Ireland. (Irish Nat., p. 61, 1892.) 



Mr. R. Lloyd Fraeger records a single example of this species from Grooms- 

 port, Co. Down. Other species are also mentioned. 



T. haliotidea at Shipley. (Nat., p. 154, 1892.) E. Self. 



T. scutulum at Horbury, Yorks. (Nat., p. 145, 1892.) W. Rushworth. 



The L. Moll. Fauna of British New Guinea. (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 1891.) C. Hedley. 



Vertigo pusilla in Lancashire. (Jy. Conch., p. 7, 1S92.) R. Standen. 



Vertigo pusilla in Lancashire. (Sci. Goss., p. 143, 1892.) F. C. Long. 



PI. albus, m. scalariforme at Peniston. (Jy. Conch., p. 7, 1892.) 

 L. E. Adams. 



H. aspersa, m. sinistrorsum, in the I. of Man. (Jy. Conch., p. 24, 1892.) 

 R. Standen. 



Notes on Marine Moll, collected on the coasts of Donegal, &c. 

 (Zool., pp. 51, 105, 139, 181 ; 1892.) H. C. Hart. 



On Mediterranean Conchology. (II. Nat. Siciliana, p. 50, 1892.) M. se. De 

 Gregario. 



Y.N.U. at Horton-in-Ribblesdale. (Nat., p. 180, 1892.) W. D. Roebuck. 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



Tertiary Moll, of Florida. (Trans. Wagner Inst., 1892).— W. H. Dale. 



11 ,, (Naut., p. 1 28, 1892).— Review. 



Monog. of the British Jurassic Gasterop., pt. I., No. 8, Gasterop. of 

 the Inferior Oolite. (Palaeontog. Soc, Vol. xlv., pp. 225-272, 1S92.)— 

 W. H. Huddleston. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Pearl Molluscs of the Persian Gulf. (Pro. Roy. Phys. Soc, p. ^o, 

 1891.)— A. Galletly. 



Mollusca of Meiringen, Switz. (Journ. Conch., p. 32, 1892).— Rev. J. W. 

 Horsley. 



In Memoriam— Dr. Wesley Newcomb. (Naut., p. 121, 1892).— R.E.C.S. 



