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WILLIAM HEALEY DALL. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Shell-bearing Marine Mollusks and Brachiopods of the South-eastern Coast of the United States, with illustrations of many of the species. Bull. 37 U.S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 8vo. pp. 1-221, Pl. I-LXXIV. This publication comprises, besides the introductory remarks, a bibliography of literature relating to the Mollusk-fauna of the region; a sketch of the general arrangement; tables showing the bathymetric, geographic and geologic distribution on the southeastern coast of the United States and adjacent region, of the Brachiopods, Pelecypods, Schaphopods, Pteropods, Shell-bearing Gastropods and Cephalopods, with illustrations of six hundred and twenty species, by over a thousand figures on seventy-four plates. These are followed by a summary showing the standing of the various groups in relation to each other as exhibited by the tables; by a full explanation in detail of each plate