96 THE NAUTILUS. 
specimens of this and other Lower California mollusks from Dr, W. 
J. Fisher, who fitted out a vessel at his own expense. He collected 
this species at Los Animas Bay.—H. A. P. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Naturat History Nores rrom Nort Caronina, by A. G. 
Wetherby. From the Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. An interest- 
ing article strongly criticizing the present mania for species-making 
with notes on the Mesodon of Roan Mountain and vicinity. 
—C. W. J. 
REPORT ON THE Monuusk-FAUNA OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, 
by R. E. C. Stearns, Ph. D., from the Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 
XVI. The geographical and physical characteristics of the Islands 
are thoroughly discussed, and with the amount of material at his 
command, Dr. Stearns finds that the many so-called species of 
Bulimulus are only forms of B. nux “for this is one of those protean 
forms, like, for instance, Patula strigosa, cooperi, etc., that can not 
be properly exemplified or understood by a few examples, nor even 
by a hundred specimens.”— C. W. J. 
An able article by Mr. Chas. T. Simpson, ON some Fossiz UNn1Ios 
AND OTHER FRESHWATER SHELLS from the drift at Toronto, Can- 
ada, with a review of the distribution of the Unionide of north- 
eastern North America, appears in the Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
Vol. XVIL—C. W. J. 
OBSERVATIONS ON VALLONIA, by Dr. V. Sterki from the Proe. 
Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1893. In this article Dr. Sterki has, with 
his accustomed acumen, revised the species and varieties of this 
genus of minute Helices, illustrating the shells, dentition and jaws 
of the species. The group has been much neglected heretofore ; 
and while some Conchologists may not be prepared to accept so 
many species as Dr. Sterki distinguishes, it must be everywhere 
admitted that in pointing out the distinctive features of the forms, a 
very valuable service has been rendered, and a substantial addition 
made to conchological literature —H. P. 
