el Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.8., XIV, 
James Wood-Mason, the real credit of elucidating the taxonomy 
of the deep-sea forms belongs to that indefatigable worker 
Colonel Alcock, for many years Surgeon Naturalist on the 
R.1.MS. Investigator. It is on his work that we have entirely — 
to depend for our knowledge of the deep-sea fish of Indian seas. 
His fascinating book A Naturalist in Indian Seas will be read 
with interest by every student of Indian Ichthyology. 
f recent contributors to Indian Ichthyology we ar 
Dr. Zugmayer, together with Mr. James Johnstone and Mr. J. 
among others by Prof. Max Weber and Dr. Beaufort on the fishes 
fishes, Henry Fowler on fishes of Borneo, Dr. Theodor Gill. 
and Mr. E. W. Gudger on fishes of the Atlantic Ocean and 
Mr. Berg on Central Asian fishes. Among workers in distal — 
lands we are very much indebted to Dr. David Starr Jordan 
and his associates and disciples working in America, Japat, 
China, and the Philippine Islands for their careful studies ® 
Indian fishes and Indian literature on fishes and for pointing 
out various mistakes in authors who have followed Ru a 
Hamilton Buchanan. It is with feelings of profound regret that 
all workers in the field of Ichthyology realize that Dr. Jordan 
is bringing his lchthyological researches to an end. He is now 
turning his attention from Ichthyology and its taxonomy oO 
prigae ca iene be as fruitful as the forty years which 
evoted to Ichthyological study from which he retires, 
the example of Linnaeus by naming his last described speci® 
bona-nox “* good night.” o 
Plasticity and evolution among the aquatic molluses 
Inle Lake in the Southern Shan States.—By * 
ANNANDALE. : 
‘ The Inle lake is a solution lake now very much shrunk and shale : 
ut once of large extension and considerable depth. [t lies 8 
tea 
fauna includes over 50% of endemic species, and the lake seem nbet 
Cacquarters of two eh Are cies of which @ considerable 2 beet 
of species are found only in the Shan States. The molluses have . t 
studied from a systematic, a geographical and a palaeontological Pot 
Med Feed well as from that of evolution. The conclusions 
