GEOaRAl’IITCAL mSTIlTRUTTON. 
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Wyman’s paper on liitcheii-middens in Maine and Massachusetts, con- 
taining common marine shells and 7jua luhricoidcs (Am. Nat. i. p. 561), and 
another by the same author on the freshwater-shell heaps of the St. John’s 
River, East Florida, composed of Ampullaria dep>ressa, Paludina multilmeata^ 
and JJnio buckleyi (ibid. ii. pp. 393 and 449), may be mentioned here (though 
so long after date) on account of their interesting contents. 
Use by Man. 
Several shells now or formerly used as money or ornaments by the Ame- 
rican aborigines are mentioned by Stearns, viz. Venus merccnaria^ Dcntalimn 
pretiosum^ Saxidomus gracilis (?), Ilaliotis rufescens and cracherodii. Ibid. 
iii. pp. 1 and 250-256. 
The fishery of oysters and various other shells at Naples is described by 
Costa, Atti 1st. Nap. (2) vii. pp. 78-83. 
A short account of the fisheries in the Red Sea, and the trade in pearl- 
oysters, is given by Klunzinger in Z. Ges. Erdk. vi. pp. 70 & 71. 
Some account of terrestrial Mollusca eaten by man in Spain, and of their 
local names, is to be found in the lists of Spanish land-shells by Hidalgo 
and Zapater, Hojas malacologicas, pp. 23, 28, 29. 
Classification, 
. Gill arranges the Mollusca in 27 orders and no less than 356 families. 
Smiths. Collect. 1871. . 
Morch has continued his review of the older conchological nomenclature, 
enumerating in chronological order the genera proposed or adopted by different 
conchologists at and immediately after the Linnaran period, from 1767-1811, 
with interesting bibliographical and biographical notes. Mai. Bl. xviii. 
pp. 16^38. 
Ho also gives the synonym}’- of spp. described by Menke as new in his 
catalogue of the collection of the Baron von Malsburg, 1828. Ibid. pp. 
125-127. 
CEPHALOPODA. 
For critical remarks on the pretended name Sepia biserialis (Montfort), 
which is due to a misunderstanding, and two probably exotic shells of a Sepia 
found on the coast of France, cf. Fischer, Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxvii. p. 126. 
Spawning and spermatozoids of Sepia and LoligOj see above, p. 121. 
LoUgo vidgaris (Lam.), in the restricted sense given by Steenstrup, occurs 
on the Atlantic coast of France, where L. forbesi (Steens.) is common. L, 
pulclira (Blainv.), also found at Arcachon, is distinct from both, and probably 
identical with L. bertheloti (Verany). Fischer, 1. c. p. 128. 
Loligo ajffinis, microcephala, and macrophtlialmay spp. nn., Lafont, ibid, xxviii. 
pp. 273 & 274, pis. 13, 14, 16, Arcachon. The author enumerates 7 species of 
‘this genus occurring at that place, giving their diflerences, and proposing the 
name moulinsi for vidgaris, Ferussac (Oephalop. pi. 8), nec Lamarck. 
Ommastrephes ci'assics, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 275, pi. 16, Arcachon. 
Eggs of a Oephalop od (genus not determined), forming a web-like mass, 
2 feet in lengthy have been observed bv Collingwood. P. L. S. xi. pp. 90-94, 
pi. 1. 
