CURRENT LITERATURE. 27 



Stearns, R. E. C— [See " Fauna," Galapagos Is. Mol.] 



The so-called new species have already been preliminarily described, but 

 are now figured for the first time. They are ; -Omhidiiiin Icslici {St.), Nitiddla 

 insciia (St.), Littornui (Tcctaria) gjhtpaf;iensis (St.). 



Stearns, R. E. C. — " On rare or little known Mollusks from the West Coast 

 of North and South America, with descriptions of new Species." 

 P.U.S. Mus., xvi., 341-32, pi. 1. 



Cliicoycits palmn-ros^ mcxicana is described. By the bye, is its name strictly 

 "binomial"? Tcctariiis atvphus (St.) and Uvanilla ngina (St.) are figured for 

 the first time. 



Sterki, von. — " Vertigo morsei.n.sp." Naut. viii., 89-go. From Kent County, 

 Michigan. 



Sterki, von. — "Two new Pisidia." Naut. viii., No. ij, pp. 97-100, pi. ii., 

 figs. 1-13. 



Sturany, R.— [See "Fauna."] 



The following new species are described and figured :~Claiisilia (Aliiidci) 

 distinctj. Cl.(F\ipillifent) lopJianchcna, ^'hxnorbis (Gyrorbis)maccdo)iicus, P. presbcnsis, 

 P. paradoxus, Valvata rhahdota, Emmcricia munda. 



Taylor, G. W. — "The present condition of Canadian Conchology." Ottawa 

 Nat., viii. (1S95), PP- 143-159- 



Warren, Miss Amy. — " Donax vittatns,\?ir. trnncatns,'Ma.rs\ia\\,'Si.S." Irish 

 Nat., vol. iv., Jan., 1895, p. 18. 



Whiteaves, J. F.--" Notes on some Marine Invertebrates from the Coast of 

 British Columbia." Quoted in Naut. viii., p. 84. A new Pcctcn. 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



Bather, F. A.--" Cephalopod Beginnings." Nat. Sci., V., 1894, PP- 4-3-43^. 

 A criticism on the observations of J. M. Clarke. 



Clarke, J. M. — " Cephalopod Beginnings." Amer. Geol. xv., 125-S. 



Crick, G. C. --" Jurassic Cephalopoda from Western Australia." Geol. 



Mag., 1894, pp. 433-441- 

 Dall, W. H. — "A subtropical Miocene fauna in Arctic Siberia." P.U.S. 



Mus. xvi., 471-8, pi. Ivi. [See " Systematic Work."] 



Dall, W. H. — "Notes on Miocene and Pliocene of Gay Head, Martha's 

 Vineyard, Mass." Amer. Journ. Sci., Oct., 1894, p. i. 



Frauscher, K. — " Nautil.usse von Guttaring." Jahrb. des Naturhist. Landes- 

 Mus. Karnten, Ixi. and Ixii. (1895), pp. 185-207. 2 pis., 6 figs. 



New species : — N. tumcs:ens and Atuvia brunlcchncri. 



Gregory, J. VJ. — " On a Collection of Fossils from the Lower Greensand of 

 Great Chart, in Kent." Geol. Mag. (s. 4), II., 97-103. 



No new species. 

 Hyatt, Alpheus. — " Phylogeny of an acquired characteristic." Proc. 

 Amer. Phil. Soc. xxxii.,, pp. 349-647, 14 pis. 



Based upon fossil cephalopods. 



Kittl, Ernst. — " Die Gastropodender Schichten von St. Cassian derSudalpinen 

 Trias," III. Theil Schluss. Ann. des. K.K., Natur. hist. Hofmuseums 

 Wien. ix., part 2, 1894, pp. 143-277, 9 plates. 



