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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
ECONOMIC MOLLUSCA OF ACADIA. 
By W. F. Ganong. 
Some years ago Professor W. F. Ganong prepared for this 
society an account of the “Economic Mollusca of Acadia,” 
which is a mine of information for those who wish to investigate 
the history, habits and economic value of our native shell-fish. 
The book is of 116 pages, well furnished with wood-cuts of the 
several molluscs described, and with these and the descriptions 
given, those interested should have no difficulty in identifying the 
several species of shell-fish described. 
One excellent feature of this work is that the uses and the 
quantity that enters commercially into consumption, are given ; 
this is under the head of “ Economics ” for each species, other 
headings of information applying to the several species are “Dis- 
tribution” and Habit. So that from this little book one may 
learn much about each of the kinds of shell-fish treated of. 
Thirty different kinds of molluscs, having economic value are 
treated of in this volume of which two are Cephalopod 
(“Squids”), seven Gasteropod (Univalves), and the remainder 
Lamellibranchs . (Bivalves). 
Professor Ganong has gone to much painstaking research in 
connection with this subject, and the result is a little volume full 
of educational value and a useful vade mecum to the wanderer 
on the seashore. 
Bound copies of this book may be had from the Curator of 
the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, at the price of 
fiftv cents each. 
