Excerpt from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 5It will be seen that each separate work or paper on the Recent Conchology of North America is taken up, its title and date given, its author's name, and a list of species therein described or in any important manner referred to, together with their synonymy, locality, and the volume, page, plate and figure relating to them. For their value as contributions to our knowledge of geographical distribution I have also quoted all the local lists of species, with out descriptions. General works on Natural History and school books containing notices of conchology are sometimes referred to. They are too numerous and of too little importance to the seien tific student to make it an object to include them all.I have not included the Bryozoa. As it was necessary to draw the line between those to be omitted or quoted among the genera of doubtful position, I have decided to give only those included in the Genera of Recent Mollusca, by H. And A.

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