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THE object of this work is to supply a want which is continually felt by conchologists, and it deserves the greatest success. Dr. Kobelt is well known to science as the editor of the jahrbucher and Nachrichtsblattder deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, which has now been published for between fifteen and sixteen years, and as one of the editors of the new Conchylien-Cabinet of Martini and Chemnitz; and he is also the author of several works and papers on conchological subjects. It appears from the prospectus of the present work that its scope will be confined to the coasts of Europe, including the English Isles, the Faroes, and Scotland, and bounded by the north coast of Africa, but excluding not only tropical and subtropical species of Mollusca, but those Arctic species from Spitzbergen and the north of Iceland which are not found on the coasts of Upper Norway. This scope, although extensive, is not very definite; and it scarcely accords with our usual notion of the European seas. We do not know what may be the author's limit of depth, whether it is the line of soundings or 100 fathoms; nor whether he will even take the Mollusca now about to be published from the Triton cruise between the Faroes and Scotland. The expeditions of the Josephine, Lightning, Porcupine, Challenger, Vöringen, Travailleur, Washington, Knight Errant, and several others, have of late years done much to aid in the exploration of the European seas at various depths; and the number of species thereby added to the Mollusca has been very considerable and is still increasing. Some additions have likewise been made from time to time to the Mediterranean Mollusca, especially by myself during the present month. Taking into account all these discoveries, I am inclined to reckon the number of species hitherto described as inhabiting the littoral zone and moderate depths in the European seas as not less than 1000; probably 1200 would be nearer the mark.
Iconographie der schalentragenden europäischen Meeresconchylien.
Von Dr. W. Kobelt. 4to. Heft 1. (Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1883.)
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JEFFREYS, J. Iconographie der schalentragenden europäischen Meeresconchylien . Nature 28, 224 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028224a0
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