28 CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Mayer-Eymar, C. — " Coquilles fossiles des terrains tertiares superieurs." 

 J. de Conch, xlii., No. 2, 1894 (pub. 1895). pp. 1 17-128, 2 plates to this 

 and next paper. 

 Ele\en new species of bivalves. 

 Mayer-Eymar, C— '■ Coquilles fossiles des terrains tertiares inierieurs.'' 

 Log. cit., pp. 129-130. 

 One new species of Natica and one of Cypi\ea. 



Newton, R. BuUen. — " Note on some Molluscan Remains lately discovered 

 in the English Keuper " (continued from p. 412). J. of C, vii., 1894 

 (pub. 1895), p. 413, 2 figs. 



Newton, R. BuUen. — "On a Collection of Fossils from ]\ladagascar 

 obtained by the Rev. R. Baron." Quart. J. Geol. Soc , ii., 72- , 

 pi. ii.-iii. 

 A good account of previous discoveries and description of new species. 



(See " Systematic Work.") 



*Schluter, Chen. — " Zur Kenntnis der I'laner-Belemniteu." Verhandl. Nat. 

 Ver Preuss Rheinl., li. 



' Schmeltz, J. D. E. — Schnecken und Muscheln in Leben der Volker 

 Indonesiens and Oceaniens, Ein Beitrag zur Ethnoconchologie. 



Read at Anthropol. Sect. Brit. Ass., Oxford, 1894. Leiden, 1894, 80., 43 p. 



Simpson, C. T.— [Drift fossils from Toronto. See "Fauna."] 



Tate, R. — " Note on the Tertiary Fossils from Hall Sound, New Guinea." 

 P. Linn, Soc, N.S. Wales, ix., 213-4. 



No new species. 



*Ulrich, E. O. — "The Lower Silurian Lamellibranchiata of Minnesota in 

 Final Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, Minnesota." Vol. vii,, chap, 

 vi., pp. 475-G28, 8 pis. 



Webb, Wilfred Mark. — " Pleistocene Non-Marine Mollusca from Walton-on- 

 the-Naze." Essex Naturalist, vol. viii. (1894), pp. 160-162. 



A list of 19 species collected by the late John Brown, F.G.S., of Stanway. 

 It forms No. i of Museum Notes. 



Zickendraht, Ernst.- " Notiz uber einige Conchilien aus dem Tuffsande bei 

 den Sperlingsbergen nachts Moscau." Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscow, 

 1894, No. 2, pp. 275-276. 



COLLECTING AND CULTURE. 



Calderwood, W. L. — " Mussel Culture and Bait Supply, with reference 

 more especially to Scotland." Tvlacmillan and Co., 1895. 



This is an interesting little work of 121 pages, calling' attention to the 

 gradually decreasing supply of mussels as bait, and to the best methods to be 

 adopted to prevent the threatened decline of the line fishing industry of the 

 North Sea. The first two chapters deal with the supply and demand of 

 mussel bait, and with the geographical distribution and general character of 

 the principal mussel beds of Scotland. The third chapter gives an account of 

 the Natural History of the Mussel as a preliminary to technical details as to 

 mussel culture and general treatment of "scalp." This is followed by an 



