PREFACE. 



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The literature of New Zealand Conchology beiug scattered 

 through many works on Natural History, most of which are not to 

 be obtained in the Colony, a critical list of all New Zealand species 

 hitherto published or represented in the European Museums has 

 been prepared for the Department by Dr. von Martens, of Berlin, 

 and will be published in a separate pamphlet, which will form a 

 useful supplement to this Catalogue, by giving all the synonyms of 

 the different species. This separation of the work into two parts 

 will be less confusing to collectors, and is moreover due both to 

 Dr. von Martens and to Captain Hutton, as they worked inde- 

 pendently, the manuscript having been received too late to be 

 employed in the preparation of the Catalogue, as was originally 

 intended. 



JAMES HECTOR. 



Colonial Museum, 7th May, 1873. 



