(1) Our British Snails (2) Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other Islands of the Indian Ocean (3) Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History) (4) Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast A Guide-book for Scientific Travellers in the West

Abstract

(1) CANON HORSLEY'S clever little manual encourages food-thrift by pointing out that “all snails are edible and nutritious,” even the garden snail being indeed “insipid; but as nourishing as calf's-foot jelly.” Under the general heading of British snails it includes the slimy slug with scanty shell, and the aquatic bivalved pearl-bearing Unio. The statement that “ there are but eighty-two land and forty-five freshwater shells in Britain “ is slightly modified by the subsequent discrimination of forty-nine British freshwater species, including Neritina fluviatilis, for which, as recently shown, the generic name should preferably be de Montfort's Theodoxus. A gentle warning against the extirpation of rare species might have been added, to qualify the impulse to the study of natural history in general given by such remarks as the following: “ If you want to make a collection, whether of dried plants, of insects, of shells, or of anything else, you must cultivate ways of order and method and neatness in the arrangement of your collection; and then your increased powers of observation, of comparison, and of method “ will, the author believes, augment in you the virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.

(1) Our British Snails.

By the Rev. Canon J. W. Horsley. Pp. 69. (London: S.P.C.K., 1915.) Price 1s. net.

(2) Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other Islands of the Indian Ocean.

Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. By Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen. Vol. ii. Part xii. December, 1914. Text. Pp. 311–442. Vol. ii. Part xii. December, 1914. Plates cxxxiii–clviii. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1914.) Price 25s.

(3) Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History).

Vol. iv. Artiodactyla, Families Cervidæ (Deer), Tragulidæ (Chevrotains), Camelidæ (Camels and Llamas), Suidæ (Pigs and Peccaries), and Hippopotamidæ (Hippopotamuses). By R. Lydekker. Pp. xxi + 438. (London: British Museum (Natural History), and Longmans, Green and Co., 1915.) Price 10s. 6d.

(4) Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast. A Guide-book for Scientific Travellers in the West.

Edited under the auspices of the Pacific Coast Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pp. xii + 302 + plates. (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1915.) Price 1.50 dollars.