348 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
expeditions, and at the time of his death he was stiil actively en- 
gaged upon the shells ofthe Lightning and ge cupine expeditions. 
The greater part of these have already been published by him in 
the Proceedings of the sactegion! Society, and probably the worn 
on most of the remaining groups of Gastropoda was well a 
vanced, if ne completed, before his death 
8 more than to any oes conchologist science is 
indebted for the careful comparison of the European shells, both 
recent and fossil, of the numerous British and continental collec- 
and the disentanglement of their confused synonym as 
especially interested in the geographical and geological anti 
tion of European mollusca, and contributed very largely to 8 
more correct and extended knowledge of these subject 
Mr. Jeffreys had accumulated during a long and active life 4 
very valuable and extensive ANT of Europea n shells, includ- 
ing a great number of types of his own species, as well as those 
other writers. His tire collection was _patehased by the 
U. 
it has already been BR hg It eect be a matter of 
congratulation to American naturalists that this unique collection 
will be preserved in this countr Af and cared for in a ager r com- 
mensurate with its scientific va 
SearLes VALENTINE Woon, Ms author of numerous *alualle 
papers on Rata Paclias le gely the Tertiary and Quaternary 
—died on the 14th of December last, in his fifty-fifth year. He 
was the son of the well-known paleontologist of the same name. 
Elementary Ed niga of es General Part and Special Part, Protozoa to 
Insecta. By Claus, Prof, Zool. and Comp. Anat. Univ. Vienna, Director 
Trieste ; t schath pe edited by ‘Adam Sedgwick Fellow 
and lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge, with the assistance of F. . Heatheote 
: ege, Cambridge. 616 pp. 8vo, with deuts. Part 2, 
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and Preside Oxf xford; arranged and edited by Wm. Turner, LLD., 
portrait, se and woodcuts. Oxford (harem phi New York (Macmillan 
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Thaning & ious 
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aee akon Bell. Paper presented to the National Acad. Sci. No 
Ctcenines from outerops of Silurian Strata in the Red River Valley, eh 
Noyes Panton, M.A., Lag nih 5 before the Manitoba Historical and Scien 
Society, Winnipeg, Nov. 27, she 
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rders_ Pri way Chiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora and Rodentia; by Ri 
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are largely dosti "and on this account as well as the extent of the collections 
nae great va with 
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plates and cuts. Cincinnati, 1885. (Central Bublishing House 
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