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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Midland Naturalist for August 1886. [The Editors. 



The Young Naturalist for August 1886. [f. E. Robson, Editor. 



The Naturalist's World for August 1886. [P. Lund, Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly for August 1886. [Bogue, Publisher. 



Science Gossip for August 1886. [Chatto and Windus, Publishers. 



Scottish Naturalist for Jan., April, and July 1886. [Prof. J. W. H. Trail, Editor. 

 Notarisia, commentarium phycologicum — N. 3 — Luglio 1886. 



[G. B. de Toni e David Levi, Redattori. 

 Revue Bryologique, 13c Annee, No. 4, 1886. [Mons. T. Husnot, Redacteur. 

 Northamptonshire Natural History Society. — Journal, Nos. 24, 25, 26, November 



1885, March and June 1886. [The Society. 



Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society — Report and Transactions, 



1885-86. [The Society. 



Cumberland and Westmorland Association — Transactions, No. 10, 1884-85. 



[The Association. 



Notes on the Sub-genus Cylinder (Montfort) of Conus. — 8vo reprint, 1886, 16 pp. 



and plate. Q. C. Melvill, Author. 



Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club— Proceedings, 1885-86. [The Club. 



Report on the Migration of Birds — Seventh Report, 1885. 



[Bird Migration Committee. 

 New York Microscopical Society — Journal for May 1886. [The Society. 



The Manx Note Book, No. 7, July 1886. [A. W. Moore, Editor. 



The Book of Duck Decoys. — By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. [The Author. 

 Pond Life : Insects. — By A. Butler. [Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 



ACKWORTH SHELLS.— It is proposed to publish in the Natural 

 History Journal a list of the Land and Freshwater Shells found near Ackworth. 

 Ackworth lies in the Went Vale district of Nelson and Taylor's Yorkshire 

 Mollusca. Any help will be very welcome. Address : — W. D. Bratthwaite, 

 Ackworth School, near Pontefract; or, Hugh Richardson, The Gables, Elswick 

 Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



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