PREFACE. IX 



Auckland, Wellington, and the Canterbury Settlement. He no 

 doubt dredged in New Zealand waters, as he had already done 

 so in the vicinity of Sydney. His collection of shells was evi- 

 dently purchased by Hugh Cuming, and supplied material for 

 several papers in the Proc. Zool. Soc. for the next few years 

 by A. ADAMS and G. P. DESHAYES. 



Dr. GREENWOOD also collected shells in New Zealand, which 

 he sent to the British Museum. These were partly described 

 by Dr. J. E. GRAY in the Proc. Zool. Soc., 1849, and by 

 Dr. L. PFEIFFER in the Malak. Blatter. 



In 1859 the Austrian frigate " Novara " visited Auckland. 



F. VON HOCHSTETTER, G. VON FRAUENFELD, and J. ZELEBOR 



were members of the expedition. Some land and fresh-water 

 shells collected by the first-named during his stay in New 

 Zealand were described by Dr. L. PFEIFFER and Professor W. 

 DUNKER in the Malak. Blatter, vol. viii, 1861 ; concerning those 

 collected by the other two scientists, only the apparent new 

 ones have been described by DUNKER and ZELEBOR in the 

 Verhandl. Zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1866, and then, with 

 figures, by FRAUENFELD in the official work, ' Reise der oester- 

 reichischen Fregatte ' Novara ' um die Erde," 1857-59, Zoolo- 

 gischer Theil, vol. ii, 1867. He later on published a list in 

 Verhandl. Zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xix, 1869, of all species 

 of Mollusca collected during the expedition, many of which, how- 

 ever, are wrongly assigned to New Zealand. 



H.M.S. '' Challenger " visited New Zealand in June and July, 

 1874, and the Mollusca obtained mostly deep-sea forms were 

 described in the "'Challenger' Reports." Vol. x contains the 

 Nudibranchiata, by Dr. R. BERGH : vol. xiii the Lamellibranchiata, 

 by EDGAR A. SMITH : vol. xv the Marseniadce, by Dr. R. 

 BERGH ; Scaphopoda and Gastropoda, by the Rev. R. BOOG 

 WATSON ; Polyplacophora, by A. C. H ADDON : vol. xvi the 

 Cephalopoda, by Dr. W. E. HOYLE : and vol. xxiii the Pteropoda 

 by Dr. P. PELSENEER. A few land-shells were described and 

 figured by EDGAR A. SMITH in the Proc. Zool. Soc., 1884. 



In the same year (1874) Dr. H. FILHOL collected on Camp- 

 bell Island, and subsequently in several parts of New Zealand. The 

 results were published in the " Comptes Rendus," and later 

 (1885) in a volume called " Mission scientifique a 1'ile Campbell." 



