Abstract
THE scope of the work under notice is not what the author originally intended it should be. He had hoped to produce a complete monograph of the genus, but the necessary material could not be got together and Mr. Alderson has unfortunately made use solely of shells in his own possession. This is a very great pity, for the subject even thus restricted has been so ably handled that the wider work would have been warmly welcomed by conchologists—we cannot say malacologists, since all allusions to anatomy and ecology are rigidly excluded.
Studies in Ampullaria.
By E. G. Alderson. Pp. xx + 102 + 19 plates. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd.; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 21s. net.
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Studies in Ampullaria . Nature 116, 275 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116275a0
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