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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History — 62 volumes. [Leeds Phil. Society. 

 Manchester Scientific Students' Association Report for 1884. [The Society. 



Further Notes on the Geology of Palestine, with a consideration of the Jordan 



Valley Scheme.— Wilfrid H. Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S. [The Author. 



Presidential Address and Report of the Malton Field Naturalists' Society for 



1884-5. [W. H. Hudleston. 



Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Assoc. for 1883-4 (No. ix.). 



[The Association. 



Journal of Linnean Society ; Botany, vol. xx., 1882-4. \)Ax. G. T. Porritt. 



Whitby Philos. Society — 59th and 62nd Reports. [The Society. 



Synopsis of the Contents of the Whitby Museum — 1881 — 8 pp. [The Society. 

 Midland Naturalist for August 1885. [The Editors. 



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



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



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



Science Gossip for August 1885. [Chatto and Windus, Publishers. 



In Pj-eparation. 



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, Ofiice of the Journal of Conchology, Hunslet New Road, Leeds. 



Information is at present specially required on the Slugs {Testacella, Li?nax, and 

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



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

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