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rich harvest again this year are being watched with interest. Tlie 

 scallops at Nantucket are in prime condition this year, and the 

 " eyes " are much larger than usual. 



The Fish Commission experts are now desirous of obtaining defi- 

 nite data concerning the movements of scallops, and have liberated 

 in Nantucket harbor a number of the shellfish to which copper tags 

 have been attached. For the success of this experiment the com- 

 missioners look to the fishermen themselves, who are requested, 

 whenever a tagged scallop is found, to record the same to the experts 

 on their next visit to the island. It is known that the scallop is cap- 

 able of moving through the water quite rapidly by simply opening 

 and closing its shell, but how far it can go in a certain length of 

 time is what the Fish Commission wants to find out. Perhaps it 

 may develop through this experiment that scallops migrate from the 

 Cape shore across the sound to Nantucket. — {Boston Evening 

 Transcript.) 



The Senior Editor of The Nautilus, in company with Mr. 

 Jas. H. Ferriss, is on a collecting trip in Arizona. He expects to be 

 absent about six weeks. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Behavior of the Pond Snail. Lymnseus elodes Say. By 

 Herbert E. Walter (Cold Spring Harbor, Monographs, vi). An 

 interesting series of experiments and observations. 



New Mollusca from the Persian Gulf, etc. By J. Cosmo 

 Melvill (Proc. Mai. Soc, London, vii, p. 69). Thirty-one new spe- 

 cies of Gastropoda and one new Scaphopod are described and figured. 



Capulus lissus Smith, as Type of a Proposed New Sub- 

 genus (Malluvium) of Amalthea. By J. Cosmo Melvill (Proc. 

 Mai. Soc, London, vii, p. 81). Under this subgenus is also placed 

 the Amalthea benthophila Dall. 



Mollusca from Three Hundred Fathoms off Sydney. By 

 C. Hedley and W. F. Petterd (Records of the Australian Mus., vi, 

 p. 212). About 100 species are recorded, of which 11 are new. 



