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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
. List of the Mollusca Existing in the Neighborhood of Cincinnati. 
< Publications of the O. G. B. IIT., Aug. 1876. 
This list, by C. R. Judge, Wm. Doherty, and two or three other high- 
school pupils, writing under the nom de plume of ‘‘ Our Geological Boys,” 
contains 211 species, some of which are referred to as possible. varieties 
of other species.—A.F.G. 
. Lewis. Unionide of Ohio and Alabama, by James Lewis, M.D. 
<(Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1877, pp. 26-36. 
A comparison of the Faunas of the two water systems, with many eriti- 
cal notes.—A_-F.G. 
Anonymous. Note on Hyalina mitium. <_Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. 
Hist., vol.i., p. 28, April, 1878. 
Obcareuces in Ohio and Kentucky noted. an F.G. 
. Brnney. The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United 
States and the Adjacent Territories of North America, de- 
scribed and illustrated by W. G. Binney, vol. v. < Bull. 
Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. iv., Cambridge, July, 1878. 
A complete manual of all fie land shells.—A.F.G. 
Catxins. Multiplication of Species in the Families Unionidee 
and Strepomatide, by W. W. Calkins. < Valley Naturalist 
(St. Louis), Jan., 1878. 
Notes as to the great number of specific forms in these families which 
must be stricken out, and placed in the ranks of synonyms only.—A.F.G. 
Caitkins. W. W. Calkins on a New Species of Succinea. 
<_ Valley of Naturalist (St. Louis), Nov., 1878. 
S. calumetensis described from Cook Co., Illinois, also note on S. retusa, 
Lea. —A.F.G. 
Catt. Mode of Distribution of Fresh-water Mussels, by R. E. 
Call. <Am. Nat., vol. xii., pp. 472-473, July, 1878. 
Unio rubiginosus and gibbosus, probably introduced from Western 
waters to New York by the Erie Canal, also notes the occurrence of 
Unio pressus, a western species in a small lake near Herkimer, N. Y.— 
A.F.G. 
Douerty. Description of Two New Gasterepods, by William 
Doherty. <cQuar. Jour. of Conch., vol. i., No. 15, pp. 341-342, 
with plate. 
Somatogyrus trothis, fr om Ohio river, and Cionella (Zua) morseana, from 
Hamilton Co., Ohio, are described.—A.F.G. 
