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/io7i, including some very beautiful and new South European forms, 

 ■e.g., U. Fiscalliamis, Requieni van roniana, Blaimeri, KsibianuSy 

 Peiichinatramus. A. idrina and Debettana. 



This double part concludes the first volume. 



We have one slight criticism to make and are almost glad of it 

 in order to prove that the praise we have bestowed on this work is 

 due to honest appreciation, and not to indiscriminate flattery. We 

 think that the advertisement of certain of Herr Kreidel's other 

 publications would have been better loose, or else printed inside 

 the cover, instead of being paged with, and thus forming part of 

 the text of Dr. Kobelt's work. C. P. G. 



Deutsche Excursions Mollusken-Fauna. 



By S. Clessin. 



Parts I — 3, Nurnberg. Bauer and Raspe. 1876. 

 Price 2 marks 50 Pfgs. [2/6] each part. 



We must confess to a certain feeling of disappointment at the 

 scope of this Vv^ork. 



By taking the new "Reich" with the addition of Bohemia only, 

 iis the limitof the fauna, instead of the old "Bund," the author has 

 lost the most productive and interesting districts, especially Tyrol, 

 .Styria, Carniola and Carinthia, whilst Alsace-Lorraine, Schleswig 

 and the Eastern Prussian Provinces which are added, contain hardly 

 any, if any, species not also found within the limits of the Bund. 

 We merely mention this to prevent others from experiencing the 

 same disappointment as ourselves, and not as any blame to Herr 

 Clessin, who has naturally the right of publishing such fauna as he 

 chooses. 



The author in his introduction offers a fevv' general remarks on 

 the object of the work, gives very interesting, and to the collector 

 useful, details of the habitats and mode of life of the land and fresh- 



