628 Recent Literature. [June, 
tated is that of the compensation of its members. The members 
of the French Academy receive a salary, and are paid for atten- 
dance besides. Additional compensation is given for labor on 
some of the committees. The government of Russia pays the 
members of its academy $2000 per annum, and gives them 
excellent lodgings in the academy building. The United States, 
with its high esteem for education and scientific investigation, 
should not do less than the autocratic government of Russia, 
whose treasury is depleted, and whose people are so largely un- 
educated. As the case now stands, in our so-cailed democratic 
country, many members cannot attend the meetings on account of 
the necessary expense, and none but rich men can hold some of 
the leading offices. 
:0: 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Norwecian NORTH ATLANTIC EXPEDITION, 1876-8 — This 
valuable memoir was forwarded to the editorial committee in 
January, 1881, and proofs of the plates had been distributed some 
months earlier, but the publication has been delayed until now. 
It contains a review of the species of Buccinide native to 
Northern and Arctic Atlantic ocean and its connecting waters. 
with the nu- 
pecies a 
tioned. The species treated of are Chrysodomus pete Bean, 
: ; H , 
Ñ. (Sipho) islandica Ch.; N. (Sipho) turgidula Jefle.; grat ia 
with species ebur Mörch, fusiformis Brod., dalli F riele, n. w : 
vita M. Sars, lachesis Morch, undulata Friele n. S. qni Friele; ] 
Friele, and varieties ; the sub-genus Mohnia with 44. 127 species: a 
Troschelia berniciensis King ; Buccinum with the following Chemn, | 
B. undatum with varieties, ciliatum Fabr., gréndlanawcu™ © Bete 
undulatum Miller, finmarkianum Verkr., humphreysia™ je 
nett, hydrophanum Hanc., nivale and sulcatum Friele (2. PE a 
va-nova@ Beck, glaciale L., and tenue Gray. erial forthe 
It will thus be seen that this work contains rich py ips it 
consideration of the student of Arctic mollusks and o „nized 
which discrimination is of extreme difficulty, as 15 fully rec E 
1 Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, 1876-8. Zoology Y sal one mp 
Buccinide. By HERMAN FRIELE. 4to, pp. 37, with six P 
‘Christiania (Dec.), 1882. 
