26 CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Boycott, A. E. — "Respiration in Limnaea" (with supplement by Bowell, 

 E. W.). Devonia, 1896, pp. 94-5 (6). 



Burne, R. H. — " Note on the Anatomy of Haiilcya ahyssoniin, M. Sars." 

 Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. ii,, pp. 4-13, pi. ii., 3 figs , 1S96. 

 The first part of this paper deals with the vexed question of the presence 

 and position of an osphradium in the Chitons ; the second consists of notes 

 on the pedal and anterior buccal commissures and the heart. 



*Chatin, J. — " Sur les macroblastes des huitres ; leur origine et leur localisa- 

 tion." C. R. Ac. Sci., vol. cxxii., pp. 796-9, 1896. 



CoUinge, W. E. — " On a Collection of Slugs from the Sandwich Islands." 

 Proc. Malac. Soc, ii., pp. 46-51, 6 figs., Bibl. 

 Descriptions of portions of the anatomy of Agyiolimax globosus, n. sp., 

 A . pcrkiiisi, n. sp., AmaJia gagatcs (Drap.), and Tebcnnophorus styiatus (Hasselt). 



Cossmann, M. — [Rev. of Dall, W. H. : "A new Classification of the 

 I'elecypoda." Tr. Wagner Inst., iii.] J. Conchyl., xliii., pp. 112-22, 

 1896. 



Crampton, H. E. — " Experimental Studies on Gasteropod Development.' 

 Arch. Entwick., iii., pp. 1-19, pis. i.-iv., and appendix by Wilson, E. B., 

 1896. 



Fischer, H. — [Rev. of several papers by Bouvier bearing on the question of 

 the inter-relationships of the Prosobrani-Jiiatd, Opisthobranchiiita, and 

 Piilmonifeni.] J. Conchyl., xliii., pp. 103-6, fig., 1896. 



*Girard, A. E. — " Sur le Thyrophoyella thomcnsis, Greef., gasteropoda terrestre 

 muni d'un faux opercule a charniere." J. Sci. Lisb. (2), T. 4, xiii., 

 pp. 28-32, 1896, I pi. 



Hedley, C. — [.Vppendix to the Molluscan part of the Rep. of the Horn 

 Scientific Expedition. See IV. A : Tate, R.] 

 Deals with the anatomy of Bithinia austyalis, Tryon ; Micyophyuya hciiii- 

 clausa, Tate; Thcysitcs setigeya, Tate; Xanthomclon /odinalis, Tate; X. adcockiana, 

 Bednall ; A', squamulosa, Tate ; A', gyanditubeyculatu, Tate; A. aycigevcus, Tate ; 

 and Lipivus spenccyi, Tate. The affinities of Micyophyuya are shewn to be with 

 Laoiihi and Flammnlina, not with the Rhytididac. 



Henneguy, L. F. — " Lemons sur la Cellule, Morphologie et Reproduction." 

 Paris, 1896, 541 pp., 410., 362 figs., Bibl. 

 This forms the most comprehensive treatise ou cytology which has up to 

 the present appeared. 



Ijima, I., and Ikeda, S. — ■" Description of Opisthotcuthis depycssa n. sp.' 

 J. Coll., Japan, vol. viii., pp. 323-37, pi. i^. 

 The octopod herein described is a most remarkable one, on account of its 

 enormous antero-posterior compression ; its shape is that of a plano-convex 

 disc (with only the tips of the arms projecting), 55 mm. in diameter, and 

 having a maximum thickness of only about 8 mm., in the single immature 

 specimen obtained. No trace of a radula was discovered, though its absence 

 was not definitely proved. Is it possible that we may be here dealing with a 

 parasitic form ? There is something about the general sucker-like shape and 

 the reduction or absence of the radula suggestive of this hypothesis. 



Koehler, R. — "Revue annuelle de Zoologie." Rev. Gen. Sci., vii., pp. 213-, 

 1896. 

 Reviews (pp. 215-7, ^gs. 3-4) the work of Kerr and Haller ou Nautilus, 

 and Huxley and Pelseneer on Spiyula. 



Korschelt, E. — [Rev. of *Fujita, T. ; " Preliminary note on the Mesoderm 

 Formation of Pulmonata." Zool. Mag. (Tokyo), vii., pp. 1-5.] Zool. 

 Centralbl., iii., 218-220. 

 (The form investigated was Siphonayia Icpida, and in this form the process 



was found normal.) 



