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MOLLUSCA 
BY 
Eduard von Martens, M.D., C.M.Z.S. 
Review of Publications. 
A. Works in progress. 
Berchon, de Folin, and Perier. Les Ponds de la Mer. Paris, 
8vo, with plates. Livraisons vi. & vii. 18G8, pp. 97-112; 
livr, viii.-xi. 1869, pp. 113-176, pis. 11-19. 
Contains chiefly descriptions of new species of Ccecidas and 
other small shells found in mud at various localities. 
Binney, W. G., and Bland, T. Land- and Freshwater Shells 
of North America. Part i. Pulmonata Geophila. (Smith- 
sonian Miscellaneous Contributions, 194.) Washington^ 
1869, 8vo, 316 pp., with 544 woodcuts. 
Part II. appeared in 1865 (see ' Zool. Record,' iv. p. 486). — 
G. Try on has published some critical notes on his work in Am. 
Journ. Conch, v. pp. 173-175. 
Jeffreys, J. Gwyn. British Conchology. Vol. V. 1869, 
pp. 258, with 102 plates. 
This volume concludes the whole work ; it contains the 
history of the naked marine Gastropoda {Aplysia, Pleurobran- 
chuSy &c., and Nudihranchiata), the submarine Pulmonata 
(Oncidium, Assiminea, MelampuSy Otina)j the Pteropoda, and 
Cephalopoda. A Supplement " contains very numerous and 
valuable additions to the four preceding volumes, a table of geo- 
graphical distribution for all species, hints for collectors, and an 
alphabetical list of the conchological works quoted. Coloured 
figures of all species of British shells are given. 
Kuster, H. C. Grosses Conchylienwerk von Martini und 
Chemnitz. Neue reich vermehrte Ausgabe. (See * Zoolog. 
Record,' v. p. 419.) 
Section 56 contains the first part of Veneracea, pp. 56, with 
18 plates, byL. Pfeiffer ; section 57 contains Cardiacea, pp. 124, 
with 14 plates, by Ed. Romer; section 58 contains the second 
part of the genus Mur ex y pp. 37-110, pis. 16-33. The 56th 
1869. [vol. VI.] 2 N 
