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STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA. Part XI. 

 By C. Hedley, F.L.S. 



(Plates xvi.-xix.) 

 (Continued from Vol. xxxiii., p. 4-89.) 



Notes in Museums abroad. 



During last year (1912), I enjoyed an opportunity of visiting 

 several important conchological collections in Europe and 

 America. At intervals, from May to October, I spent ten weeks 

 in study at that of the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington. To its genial custodian, Mr. E. A. Smith, D.S.O., I am 

 greatly indebted for facilitating my work, and for aid in diffi- 

 culties of nomenclature. 



Some impressions of the Conchological department of the 

 British Museum were published in an American Conchological 

 Journal.* 



Here, I examined almost every Australian marine gastropod 

 and pelecypod in the collection. Beneath the tablets are valu- 

 able notes on synonymy, habitat, and so forth, chiefly the work 

 of Mr. Smith. By his permission, I am enabled to transfer, from 

 this source, much important information to these pages. 



Time did not allow me to complete my studies in London. On 

 assembling my notes in Sydney, many points arise which now I 

 should like to re-examine, but for which the opportunity has 

 passed. I was fortunately able to obtain the services of Mr. A. 

 H. Searle. A series of his beautiful drawings, now presented, 

 illustrate thirty hitherto unfigured species, from the types in the 

 British Museum. 



For the most part, the present paper is a category and correc- 

 tion of mistakes and confusion. Had the locality been given, 



* Hedley, Nautilus, xxvi., 1912, pp.85-90. 



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