GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
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rauean, with their popular names in various parts of Italy [by the 
Recorder], in Amtliche Berichte iiber die Fischerei-Ausstellung, 1881, 
iv. pp. 24-26. 
List of 14 Chinese species of Gastropods and 10 of Bivalves used as 
food, with their Chinese names ; Fauvel, Mem. Soc. Cherb. (2 ) xxiii. 
[1881] pp. 197 & 198. 
A. Issel has published a manual of oyster- and mussel-breeding (title 
supra), describing the natural history of oysters generally and the varie- 
ties living in the Mediterranean particularly, the physical conditions 
favourable for their life and propagation, the rational management of 
oyster-breeding, and its practice in Italy and other countries, with 
suggestions for its amelioration ; the breeding of mussels in Europe is 
also described, and that of Novaculina and of Area granosa in China 
mentioned. Abstract by Senoner in Zool. Gart. xxiii. p. 86. 
For European, North American, and Australian oysters, see also in the 
special Part, Ostreidce. 
Some popular names for Mya armaria and Venus merccnaria in North 
America incidentally mentioned by W. Dall, Am. Nat. xvi. p. 882. 
General notes on pearls and pearl fishery, and special account of those 
of Margaritana margaritifera in Saxony, by H. Nitsche (and S. Fried- 
lander), in Amtliche Berichte fiber die Fischerei-Ausstellung in Berlin, 
1881, pp. 75-90, and Nachr. mal. Ges. 1882, pp. 49-64. 
Dipsus plicatus (Solander) = Symphynota Ihuysi (Dairy). On its oc- 
currence at Ningpo, and the introduction of pieces of tin into the mollusk 
in order to get them overlayed by nacre ; also on the production of arti- 
ficial pearls, by introduction of spherical foreign bodies, in the province 
of Chekiang. Fauvel, M<$m. Soc. Cherb. (2) xxiii. [1881] pp. 164-169. 
Note on ornaments made out of shells ( Spondylus and Tridacna) from 
Fiji, Bougainville, and Solomon Islands, by E. P. Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. W., Aug. 30, 1882. 
Haliotis. Several species exported from California ; Dall, Am. Nat. 
xvi. p. 965. 
The black fluid of Sepia sinensis (Orb.) is not used in China like ink, 
because the colour becomes pale after some time; Fauvel, M^m. Soc. 
Cherb. (2) xxiii. [1881] p. 136. 
Notes on prehistoric heaps of sea or fresh-water shells as kitchen- 
middens in North America, chiefly New England and the Middle States, 
by C. Abbott, in his work, “ Primitive Industry,” a special publication of 
the Peabody Academy of Science (Salem: 1881), pp. 437-451 ; in many 
instances, the specimens are larger and more solid than those now living 
on the same shore, and Venus mercenaria (L.) was formerly rather abun- 
dant north of Cape Cod, where it is now very scarce and local. 
Notes on certain aboriginal shell mounds on the coast of New Bruns- 
wick and of New England, by S. F. Baird, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv. 
pp. 292-297. 
“ Kitchen trash doposits,” with recent species of TJnio and Gastropods, 
the former broken up to mix with the clay of pottery, at Saltville, in 
Yirgiuia ; Lesley, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xix. p. 155. 
Indications of worked shells (Lunatia heros) in the New England shell- 
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