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 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



(limited to works received by the society's librarian). 



Iconographia Molluscorum Fossilium in Tellure Tertiaria Hungariae, 

 Croatiae, Slavoniae, Dalmatiae, Bosniae, Herzegfovinae, Serbiae et 

 Bulgariae Inventorum, by Spiridion Brusina. Atlas Folio ; Zagreb 

 (Agram) Croatia, 1902. 



The compiler of this work, Professor Brusina, director of the National Museum 

 of Croatia, has for many years made a special study of the malacological fauna 

 which characterizes the Neogene or Mio-Pliocene deposits of South-eastern Europe. 

 He has issued a large number of memoirs upon the subject, usually well illustrated, 

 and has thus rendered most important services to this branch of Palseontology, the 

 value of which either to the student or the systematist is very generally recognized. 

 According to an announcement on the title-page, this " Iconographia " forms a 

 continuation of the author's Monograph of 1897, called " Materiaux pour la Faune 

 Malacologique Neogene de la Dalmatie, de la Croatie, et de la Slavonic avec des 

 especes de la Bosnie, de I'Herzegovine et de la Serbie," a work which is very 

 necessary to consult, since it gives geological information respecting the various 

 beds of the Neogene series and their shell contents, which is not repeated in the 

 present book. It is, therefore, necessary to explain here that the Neogene Mol- 

 lusca of this region of Europe are of lacustrine and fluviatile origin^, having formerly 

 inhabited a series of brackish-water lakes, which extended from the eastern boundary 

 of the Adriatic Sea to the shores of the Caspian. In fact, the existing faunas of the 

 Black Sea, the Aral, the Caspian, and other neighbouring inland waters are sup- 

 posed to represent the remnants of the once prolific life of the Neogene period. In 

 this area of Europe the Neogene deposits are divisible into the Pontian and 

 Levantine or Plaisancian stages, which are respectively equivalent to the Upper- 

 most Miocene and the Lowest Pliocene. A leading Lamellibranch genus of the 

 Pontian beds is Congeria, hence such deposits are known by the German geologists 

 as " Congerien-Schichten " ; whereas the Levantine beds are characterised by the 

 great abundance of Viviparus (or Paliidina), and have, therefore, been termed 

 " Paludinen-Schichten." Coming to the work itself, we find it to consist of 1,582 

 lithographic figures, occupying 30 folio plates. These illustrations represent 424 

 species and sub-species, 46 undeterminable forms, and 190 entirely new shells, to 

 which new specific names have been attached. Beyond a small Latin preface 

 referring to the scope of the work, there is no descriptive text of the specimens 

 figured, nor, as before observed, is there any intimation of the horizontal value of 

 each species — only the genus, species, and its author, and locality, are given. With 

 regard to the new specific names that are introduced, it is quite certain that 

 Palaeontologists will be unable to recognize them until such time as the shells to 

 which they refer are systematically described. The plates, however, are well 

 executed, and as a reference work to the Neogene Mollusca of this region of 

 Europe it is indispensable to the student. — R.B.N. 



Nachrichsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoolog'ischen Gesellschaft, 1905, 

 pts. 3, -4, July-December, 1905. 



"Die Konchylien aus den Anspulungen des Sarus-Flusses bei Adana in 

 Cilicien," by O. Boettger [72 '5 per cent, identical with those from the Medi- 

 terranean region ; 30 per cent, with those of Germany ; 8 nn.spp. in Daicdebardia, 

 Helix {Theba), Coeloslde, Lartetia 2, Paulia, Daudebardiella, n.g. 2]. " Einige 

 Seltenheiten aus meiner Sammlung," by C. Bulow. " Neue Arten aus Erlangers 

 Ausbeute," by W. Kobelt [9 nn.spp. in Africarion, Bloyetia 3, Homonis 5]. 

 " Beitrage zur Kenntnis der MoUuskenfauna des Roten Meeres und des Golfes 



