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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



*The Birds of Lancashire. By F. S. Mitchell. — 8vo, cloth, 224 pp., vi'ith map and 

 plates. [The Author. 



H. O. Forbes' Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago.— 8vo, cloth, 

 with maps and woodcuts. 1885. [Sampson, Low & Co. 



Natural History Society of Glasgow. — Proceedings, Vol. 5, Part 3 (1882-83), and 

 Vol. I (new series). Part i (1883-84). [The Society. 



Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. 13y F. Jeffrey Bell. — 1885. 8vo, 555 pp. 



[Cassell & Co. 



Journal of New York Microscopical Society — May 1885. [Society. 



Mineralogical Magazine for May 1885. [Mineralogical Society. 



Journal of Northamptonshire Nat. Hist. Society. No. 22, May 1885. [Society, 



Revue Bryologique. No. 3, for 1885. [T. Husnot, Editor, 



Grevillea, a quarterly record of Cryptogamic Botany. June. [Dr. Cooke, Editor. 



Midland Naturalist for June 1885. [The Editors. 



The Young Naturalist for June 1885. [J. E. Robson, Editor. 



*The Naturalist's World for June 1885. [P. Lund, Editor. 



*Natural History Journal for June 1885. [J. E. Clark, Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly for June 1885. [Bogue, Publisher. 



■^Science Gossip for June 1885. [Chatto and Windus, Publishers. 



Memoirs marked * will be noticed in our Annual Bibliography of the Literature of the Physi- 

 cal Features and Natural History of the North of England. 



In Preparation. 



A Monograph of the Land and Fresh-Water Mollusca 

 of the British Fauna. 



The work is intended to be full, detailed, and exhaustive, and adequately 

 illustrative of Variation, Development, and Geographical Distribution. 



Co-operation is invited from all interested, and any information or specimens 

 (the common species of every district are particularly desired), will be welcomed 

 and carefully acknowledged. The Authors may be addressed — c/o Mr. JOHN W. 

 Taylor, Office of the Journal of Conchology, Hunslet New Road, Leeds. 



Information is at present specially required on the Slugs {Testacella, Limax, and 

 Arion), of which living specimens from every district are desired. 



The cheapest dealer in Birds, Skins, Eggs, Butterflies, Moths, Foreign Shells, 

 etc., is John Eggleston, Park Place, Sunderland. Lists free. 



