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Guide to the Molluscan Literature 499
Symposium on "Methods of Collecting and Preserving Mollusks." Annual Report,
American Malacological Union, 1941. Several authors. Excellent. Write:
Secretary, A. M. U., Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo 1 1, N.Y.
CHAPTER VI—HOW TO KNOW AiMERICAN SEASHELLS
Malacology and the Official List of Generic Names. C. G. Aguayo. 1949. The
Nautilus^ vol. 63, pp. 17-19.
Illustrated Glossary of Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, Amphineura. Beatrice Bnrch.
1950. Minutes loj, Conch. Soc. Southern Calif. Mimeographed. $1.50.
Pelecypoda glossary also available.
Systematics and the Origin of Species. E. Mayr. 1942. Columbia Univ. Press,
N.Y. 334 pp. Good bibliography.
Procedure in Taxonomy. E. T. Schenk and J. H. McMasters. 1948. Stanford
Univ. Press, Calif. Revised ed. by A. M. Keen and S. W. Muller.
GEOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
ATLANTIC COAST
General
List of Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic Coast from Labrador to Texas. C. W.
Johnson. 1934. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 40, pp. 1-204. 2632 species
listed with ranges. About 757© complete, some names now obsolete. Bibliography
very good, with over 500 entries. No illustrations or descriptions.
Johnsonia. Monographs of the Marine Molhisca of the Western Atlantic. 1942-
Vols. I and 2 (600 pp., quarto size now complete). Museum Comparative
Zoology, Cambridge 38, Alass. Thorough treatment of various genera with
excellent plates, descriptions, ranges, records and collecting localities. W. J.
Clench, ed.
A Preliminary Catalogue of the Shell-bearing Marine Mollusks and Brachiopods
of the Southeastern Coast of the United States. W. H. Dall. 1889 (and a
1903 reprint). Bull. 57, U. S. Nat. Mus., 232 pp., 45 pis. Illustrations
useful, ranges fairly good, but the names out-of-date. Out of print.
very
Blake Reports. Reports on the Results of the Dredging ... in the Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea by the . . . Steamer 'Blake'. 1886. Pt. I.
Brachiopoda and Pelecypoda. W. H. Dall. Bnll. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol.
12, pp. 171-318, 9 pis.; 1889, Pt. II, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Ibid., vol.
18, pp. 1-492, 30 pis. Numerous deep-sea species with excellent drawings.
Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida. W. H. Dall. i 890-1903. 6 parts.
Trails. Wagner Inst., vol. 3, 1654 pp., 60 pis. A monumental work containing
many important revisions. Contains many recent species, but the nomen-
clature is out-of-date.