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shells should be catalogued as our beasts and birds and plants have 

 already been, then try to persuade the Naturalists in charge of our 

 public collections to undertake the work which I feel they will most 

 readily do, if they think that such a course will help forward the study 

 of Canadian conchology. 



Appendix. 



A list of some of the most important papers relating to Canadian 

 c onchology : 



A. Papers referring more especially to eastern marine shells. 



i. Stimpson, Wm. Revision of the Synonymy of the Testaceous 

 Mollusks of New England. Boston, 1851. 



2. Stimpson, Wm. Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata of Grand 



Manan or the region about the mouth of the Bay of 

 Fundy, New Brunswick. 



Smithsonian Contributions, Vol. vi., 1854. 



3. Bell, Robert On the Natural History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



and the distribution of the Mollusca in Eastern Canada. 

 Canadian Naturalist, Vol. iv., p. 197. June, 1859. 



4. Gould, A. A. Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, com- 



prising the Mollusca, Annelida and Radiata, &c. Cam- 

 bridge, 1 84 1. 



Second edition revised and enlarged by W. G. Binney. 

 Boston, 1870. 



5. Dawson, J. W. Marine Invertebrates collected in Gaspe Bay, lat. 



43, 45' W. 



Canadian Naturalist, Vol. hi., No. 5, p. 329. 

 October, 1858. 



6. Carpenter, P. P. Note on Mullusks and Radiates from Labrador. 



Ca?iadian Naturalist, Vol. iv., No. 2. April, 1859. 



7. Packard, A. S. On the Marine Invertebrata of Southern Labrador. 



Canadian Naturalist, Vol. viii, No. 6. d. 401. 

 December, 1863. 



