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VII. MOLLUSCA. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Advantage has been taken of the separate issue of portions of the Record 
to complete the ‘Mollusca’ at an earlier date than in any past year. 
Some periodicals have, as yet, proved inaccessible, but it is felt that the 
advantage gained by prompt publication largely outweighs the delay of 
a year in recording a few papers, most of which will prove to be of minor 
importance. As usual, it has not been thought necessary to include in the 
list of ‘Titles’ something like fifty minor notes, many of these being 
anonymous; all have however been duly inserted in their proper places 
elsewhere. 
The completion of Dale’s (126) ‘ Tertiary Fauna of Florida’ is an event 
upon which that author is to be heartily congratulated and the work will 
prove of great value to the systematist. Tryon’s (535) Manual has, in 
Mr Pilsbry’s hands, made good progress, five parts having appeared which 
practically complete the monograph of the Urocoptidce. The ‘ Conchylien- 
Cabinet ’ of Martini & Chemnitz (339) has been issued as usual, dealing 
with Helix , the Agnatha , Chitonidce and Vermetidce. A further part of his 
‘Essais de PaKoconchologie ’ has been published by Cossmann (112), in 
which he has considered the Muricidee , Purpuridce, Cyprceidce , & c. To 
Hidalgo (234) we owe a further part of his ‘Obras’, commencing his study 
of the Pelecypoda of the Philippine Islands. 
The descriptive papers dealing with non-marine Molluscs have beep 
fairly numerous. Japan has, as in past years, received attention from 
Pilsbry (401, &c.), both separately and with Hirase, the former author 
also having written upon the American fauna. A number of species from 
Indo-China have been described by Bavay & Dautzenberg (32), the latter 
author having also (138) dealt with collections from the Islands of Obi and 
Iolo. Collinge (107, 108) has written accounts of collections from Borneo 
and the Malay Peninsula, while Blaeford (49) has catalogued some species 
from Siam, and a very useful list of the Helicoid fauna of Asia has been 
compiled by Gude (219). Smith (488) has reviewed the fauna of Sokotra, 
Caziot (82) that of Corsica, and Ancey (11) has listed the shells of Cocos 
Island. Taylor (524) has published a further part of his ‘Monograph’ of 
the British fauna, and Woodward (573) has given a convenient working 
list, with systematic notes. An elaborate French local fauna may be found 
under Germain (198), while Granger (212) has made an attempt to reduce 
the vast number of Helicidce described from that country to their proper 
numerical dimensions. 
Westerlund (556) has written a classification of the European non- 
marine fauna, Kobelt has continued Rossmaessler’s (450) work, giving also 
with Moellendorff (299) a list of the Bidmiinidce , modelled on the mono- 
graph in the ‘Conchylien- Cabinet.’ 
Perhaps the most salient feature of the literature of the past year is the 
number of valuable papers describing marine collections formed by various 
expeditions. We have to chronicle Martens’ (331) account of the Gastro- 
pods collected by the German deep-sea expedition, which includes some 
very interesting forms ; Hedley’s (224) continuation of the results of the 
‘Thetis’ expedition, dealing with Gastropods and Scaphopods ; Joubin’s 
(265) notes on the Cephalopods of the ‘ Belgica’ ; Pelseneer’s (391) report 
on the residue of the collections, except the Peleoypods; Sturany’s (510) 
addition to our knowledge of the Gastropods and Amphineura of the Red 
Sea ; Smith’s (487) account of the Molluscs from the Maidive and Laccadive 
Archipelagoes ; and Knipowitsch’s (290) completion of his review of the 
forms collected during the Russian expedition to Spitsbergen. Kobelt 
(291) has continued his account of the European fauna ; while with regard 
