BOOKS RECEIVED. 



( Contmued). 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1876, 8vo., 

 pp. 200. [The Society. 



Address to the. Biological Section of the British Association, Plymouth, 

 i6th August, 1877, by J. Gywn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S., Treas. 

 G. & L. SS., &c., President of the Section, 1877, 8vo., pp. 9. 



[The Author. 



Descriptions of a new genus of Gastropodous MoUusca from Japan, and 

 of a new species of Bullia from Kurrachi, by George French Angas, 

 C.M.Z.S., F.L.S., &c., 1877, 8vo., pp. 2 and plate. [The Author. 



Report on the Brachiopoda of Alaska and the adjacent shores of North- 

 West America, by Prof. W. H. Dall, 1877, 8vo., pp. 18. 



[The Authoi^ 



OF 



GREAT BEITAIN AND IRELAND. 



THIS Society has recently been founded, its objects being the 

 advancement of Gonchological Science, the formation of a I,ibrary 

 and collections illustrative of the Science in all its departments, and the 

 publication of proceedings. 



The Subscription is Half-a-Guinea per annum. 



The Council will be happy to hear from Conchologists in any part 

 of the world who may be desirous of assisting the Society by becom- 

 ing members, or by donations of Books for the library, or of 

 specimens for the collection. Not only are shells desired for the col- 

 lection but the anatomical preparations and slides. The Council 

 will also be happy to receive communications to be read before the 

 meetings, which will, if deemed suitable, be published in the proceed- 

 ings. 



HENRY CROWTHER, Secretary, 



THE MUSEUM, 



LEEDS. 



Nov. I, 1877. 



