522 Recent Literature, [May, 
Whatever the source of the plan of the Frankfurt journal, its 
inspiration and success are due more to its editor, Dr. Kobelt, than 
to all other cc-operating causes whatsoever. His scientific qualifi- 
cations for the task are well known, apart from which he possesses 
an artistic pencil of rare facility which has been employed freely 
for the illustration of the “ Jahrbuch” from the beginning ; while it 
is an open secret that to Madame Kobelt’s brush we are indebted 
for the tinting of the beautifully colored plates which have graced 
the work from time to time. This lady is an enthusiastic collector 
and excellent conchologist, and her labors as well as those of her 
husband have been carried on in the midst of household duties 
and the busy life of a physician in a country village. These per- 
sonal details may be pardoned, since devotion, under difficulties, 
to the promotion of science is the highest stimulus to those in 
similar circumstances. i, 
It will be rightly inferred from the above that the journal has been 
well edited and illustrated from the first, and that it has contained 
in preceding volumes some of the best malacological papers of the 
time. The present volume is well up to the standard of its pre- 
decessors, and contains, beside notices of current literature and 
items of news, a continuation of Dr. Kobelt’s useful catalogues of 
species, the most important of which in this volume are Fusus an 
Pisania ; contributions to the conchology of South America by 
Dohrn and Dunker; of the Tyrol by Vincent Gredler; of China 
by Mollendorff; of Céntral Asia and Madagascar by Dohrn; 
E. von Martens contributes to our knowledge of the Pulmonates by 
Angola and Loango; P. Hesse discourses on the conchologi 
aspects of Greece; Jickeli and Lobbecke describe various 
velties ; while Schepman contributes a thorough, well illustra A 
and important paper on the dentition of Hyalina. Herr T. : 
Verkruzen, who is only too well known to American studen 
opportunity of judging of the value of these criticisms. , volume 
_ By no means the least important of the articles in this ú 
is the editor’s account of a conchological journey to Spain, sak 
the auspices of the Museum, with a view of investigating varie’ | 
points in geographical distribution, but exigencies of spa set con- 
us to cut our remarks short, with the recommendation 
