A NEW MONOGRAPH OF BRITISH MOLLUSCA. 15 
taking care, which the author possesses in a high degree, and which 
are apparent on every page of the book, he has had practical 
experience and daily intercourse and correspondence with the real 
conchologists—‘ the hewers of wood and drawers of water,’ as my 
friend, Mr. W. Nelson, aptly puts it—all over the country for many 
years. The highest praise we can give this book, to us far beyond 
even the exquisite original drawings, is its fairness in this respect. 
The working conchologists—the shell-men at the meetin ngs of 
naturalists—see their work incorporated and acknowledged in the 
text, and not ignored or bracketed as if the writers were localities, 
nor drifted into an appendix. A book like this will make friends of 
co-workers, and elevate their regard for a science they have hitherto 
studied from real love and admiration of the dainty shell and the 
creeping snail. 
The illustrations are numerous, truthful, and got up in a manner 
somewhat different from what conchologists are accustomed to since 
photography, a worry after half-hidden details, an artistic hand and 
brain educated to recognise conchological divergences have 
combined to portray the most of them 
Take this little sketch of He/ix granulata (every 
conchologist remembers his delight when first he 
turned the shell up in a damp, dark corner—maybe 
years ago—and saw those delicate hairs, character- 
istic of the species, upon it) and see if it does not 
express, as well as he could do it himself, at his best, that first 
impression of its delicate, silky, epidermal geneaacties 
r again one of Anodonta anatina, var. radiata Jeffr., fro 
the River Foss, Blue Bridge, near York, replete with delightful 
suggestions of the beauty of the shell, an exquisite rendering of its 
2.C—-— 
Jan. 1895. 
