
Page 6 March 1978 No. 240 NEW YORK SHELL CLUB Notas 
i tive Zoology. As 
Division of the Museum of Compara 
isla enap ave iaueNeritative and carefully sdspee Petes mh? Paper 
discusses two Jamaican lectotypes which had ah eee: e by Clench 
and Turner (1950) and suggests some changes. Siete a oe — te 
other papers are self-explanatory. All are we illustrated, 
William G. Lyons. COMMENTS ON THREE JAMAICAN MELLANELLID SPECIES 
DESCRIBED BY C. C. ADAMS, Occasional Papers on Mollusks, vol. 4, 
no. 55, pp. 149-160, Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Harvard University. 
Richard I. Johnson. MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS MEDIONIDUS MOSTLY FROM 
THE APALACHICOLAN REGION, SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Ibid., vol, 4, 
no. 56, pp. 161-188. 
Kenneth J. Boss. MONOGRAPH OF IACARA (BIVALVIA: SEMELIDAE), Ibid., 
vol. 4, noe BT pp. 189-228. 
Richard I. Johnson. ARNOLD EDWARD ORTMANN, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS 
WORK ON MOLLUSKS, WITH A CATALOGUE OF HIS RECENT MOLLUSCAN Taxa, 
Toia., Vol. #, no. 58, pp. 229+244. 
Of special interest in Occasional Papers are the 'fillers' which 
complete the leaflets. For example, in no. 54 Harriet Hornblower 
contributes a brief but valuable description of Alcide d'Orbigny's 
South American Expedition (1826-1833) which resulted. in his monu- 
mental VOYAGE DANS L'AMERIQUE MERIDIONAL (1835-1847), the basis of 
all studies of South American mollusks. In no. 56 the same author 
reviews Sarah Hurlbut's MUSSEL COOKBOOK (Harvard University Press, 
1977). Besides being an excellent cookbook, Ms. Hornblower reports 
that it also contains strong arguments to induce us Americans to 
make more culinary use of this succulent and inexpensive source of 
marine proteins. No. 57 contains a brief biography and bibliography 
of Norman MacDowell Grier by R. I. Johnson plus a list of the novel- 
ties he introduced mainly in the naiads. The same number also con- 
tains Dr. Boss's review of T. Habe's SYSTEMATICS OF MOLLUSCA IN 
JAPAN (BIVALVIA AND SCAPHOPODA). In spite of many excellent fea- 
tures in this work, Cr. Boss found it to be “regional and parochial.’ 
He concludes that "critical revisions of most oriental taxa continue 
to go begging." I think this means that too many unevaluated novel- 
ties have appeared recently in publications devoted to the shells of 
the Far Eastern Seas. And finally no. 58 contains a brief history 
canner ese Museum of Pittsburgh and its valuable collection of 
The price for these superb publications i isi 
; 1S surprisingly reasonable 
Ss csigiang ees in these days of rampant Gugiation & Those Satend ae in 
subscribing should contact Dr. Kenneth J. Boss, Division of Mollusks; 
Museum of Comparati ; : - 
ened 5 ooiae: ve Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa 
Bao RIS k Te M. K. Jacobson 
MALACOLOGICAL ARTICLE OF THE MONTH 
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Sonus striatue” ts discesed ie on aor see Venom fom the gastzyet 
ndean, Helen Willian at ere arene with this title by R. 
267- : an Surrid i 4): 
67-274 for 1976. The poison elicits spontnous’ an tin oy i oe; 
