12S editor's notes. 



Loewinson-Lessing, F. — Lesceminonces de la zone a Sporadoceras Miinsteri, 

 dans les monts Gouberlinskya Gorz. Mem. Soc. Belg. d. Geol. vi., 

 pp. 15-25, 1 pi. 



Oppenheim, P. — Ueber innere Gaumenfatten bei fossilen Cerithien und 

 Melaniaden. Zeit. d. Deutscli. Geol. Gesell., xliv.,pp. 439-46, figs. 



Oppenheim, P., and Beyridi, E. — Neue Fundpunkte von Binnenmollusken 

 im Vicentinisehen Eocan. Ibid., pp. 500-3. 



Three species of Helix, Planorbis, Melanopsis, Cyclotus t and some new forms 

 not yet desci ibed. 



Picaglia, L.— Molluschi terrestri e fluviatile viventi nelle Provincie di Modena 

 e reggio. Bull. Soc. Mai. Ital., xvi., pp. 83-129. 



An exhaustive monograph, with list of Tertiary forms. 



Picard, K. — Ueber Balatomites sondershttsanus, n. sp. Zeit. d. Deutsch. 

 Geol. Gesell., pp. 483-7, t pi. 



Siemiradzki, J. von. — Die oberjurassische Ammoniten-Fauna in Polen. Ibid., 

 pp. 447-82. 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



Cockerell, T. D. A. — Naturalists of the Day. With portrait. Brit. Nat., 

 1S93, pp. 40-41. 



Stein, Dr. J. G. Am.— Obituary Notice of. Nachr. Deutsch. Malak. Gesell., 

 1S92, pp. 175-6. 



TECHNIQUE. 

 Dall, W. H. — Hints for Collectors of Mollusks. Nature, 1892, p. 140 



Durrant, H.— Collecting, Preserving, &c, L. and F. S. Nat. Journ., 1892, 

 p. 66, 1S93, pp. 77 and 89. 



EDITOR'S NOTES. 



On another page we give details of the first meeting of the Malacological 

 Society, which is now an established fact and an active and vigorous body. 



We understand that Mr. Suter is about to publish a new list of the Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca of New Zealand, in w^hich the old list of 125 species will be 

 raised to 17S. 



The Editor tenders his grateful thanks for the valuable assistance rendered or 

 promised by the following authors and institutions who have so generously 

 responded to his request for assistance in the ' Current Literature' : — Drs. Simroth, 

 Kobelt, and Brusina, W. H. Dall, Carlo Pollonera, H. A. Pilsbry, 

 and T. D. A. Cockerell ; the Authorities of the British Museum, the National 

 Museum, Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Inst., the Institute of Jamaicn, 

 W.I., and the Royal Malacological Society of Belgium. 



