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Notes and Comments. 



burrows, simple and complicated. One of these we are kindly 

 permitted to reproduce (plate VI). In common with many of 

 our readers, we are all impatient to see this fine work completed. 



LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA. 



We are also pleased to announce the appearance of part 19 

 of another substantial contribution to British natural history, 

 viz., the ' Monograph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca 

 of the British Isles,' by the President of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, Mr. J. W. Taylor. The part is devoted 



Helix pisana on its food plant, at Tenby. 



to a thorough description of the characters, varieties and 

 distribution of Helix pisana (a species which is not recorded 

 for the northern counties), and Helicigona lapicida. These 

 are illustrated by distribution maps, photographs of habitats, 

 monstrosities, and varieties, and also by some really wonderful 

 coloured plates. We beheve we are correct in stating that 

 these could only have been drawn and reproduced by Mr. 

 Taylor. Through the kindness of the author we are able to 

 reproduce one of them (plate I). 



' SCIENTIFIC ' NAMES. 



We have many times called attention to certain absurdities 

 in nomenclature, but .we think the height of absurdity has 

 been reached in a volume of the Transactions of the American 

 Entomological Society, attention to which is drawn by Mr. 

 Meyrick, in The Entomologist' s Monthly Magazine, No. 573. 

 We quite agree that the names are ' based on a barbarous 

 ;and unmeaning gibberish,' and that ' if a name is without 



Naturalist, 



