106 THE NAUTILUS. 
Not content with the labor of naming and cataloging Mr. Stearns’ 
shells, Mr. Pilsbry has searched the literature and made a catalogue, 
not only of the shells collected by Mr. Stearns, but of all the species 
described from or assigned to Japan by earlier authors, thereby pro- 
ducing a most handy list which no student of mollusks can afford to 
be without. Notwithstanding the care with which the Monographs 
of Dunker and Lischke were made, the present catalogue enumerates 
about 20 per cent. more species than the latest of them. In addition 
to the list of marine mollusks and brachiopods, the land and fresh~ 
water shells collected by Mr. Stearns are catalogued, and also a 
supplementary series of Loo Choo Island species, obtained by a 
native collector in Mr. Stearns employ. The plates and presswork 
are excellent, and the work, as a whole, is creditable to all concerned 
in its production, and cannot fail to be useful to students. 
—W. H. D. 
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE MARINE MOLLUSKS OF THE 
Paciric Coast oF CANADA, with notes on their distribution. By 
Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 
Vol. 1 (2d series), pages 17 to 100. This catalogue is very complete 
and full of interesting notes on distribution, etc. The number of 
species recorded is 284, to which is added a list of 67 land and fresh- 
water species, making the total number of British Columbian Mol- 
lusea at present known, 351. 
BULLETINS OF AMERICAN PAaLEontoLoey, Vol.I, No. 3. NEo- 
CENE Mo.tuusca or TExAs, oR FossiLs FROM THE DEEP WELL AT 
Gatveston. By G. D. Harris. In this Bulletin, 19 new species 
and 5 new varieties are described and figured, together with notes 
and figures of other species. Most of the specimens were obtained 
from a depth ranging from 2100 to 2920 feet. Up to this date no 
other marine Neocene fossils are known from the Gulf slope west of 
the Mississippi. The Bulletin contains 32 pages and 4 well executed 
plates. 
MOoLLUSQUES RECUEILLIS SUR LES COTES DE LA TUNESIE ET DE 
L’ALGERIE, par Ph. Dautzenberg (Mém. Soc. Zool. de France, 
1895, p. 363). List, with descriptions of some new varieties of 
Mediterranean shells, and full information on the occurrence of 
Meleagrina iv the Mediterranean Sea. 
ON SOME PLIOCENE FRESH-WATER FossILs OF CALIFORNIA. 
On LAND AND FRESH-WATER SHELLS OF LOWER CALIFORNIA, 
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