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ALTHOUGH the recent mollusca of this district have during the last few years received a good deal of attention, especially from the labours of M'Andrew, Barlee, and Merle Norman, still the various memoirs detailing the results of these labours were only to be found widely scattered through a number of scientific periodicals, and Mr. Brown has in this neatly printed work given us not only a résumé of the labours of the naturalists we have referred to, but also of all those who have collected on the Firth of Clyde, and joined these to the labours of Mr. David Robertson and his own. The result is, so far as the testaceous mollusca go, a large and apparently accurate catalogue, which will show not only what has been done but also among the nudibranchs and cuttle-fish what is yet to be done. The notes under the heading of Habitat in this catalogue are often most interesting, giving details not only of the exact localities for the species, but notes also of their local names.
The Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde; being a Catalogue of Recent Marine Species Found in that Estuary.
By Alfred Brown. (Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, 1878.)
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The Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde; being a Catalogue of Recent Marine Species Found in that Estuary . Nature 19, 217 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019217a0
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