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[From Tians. Biol. Soc, L'pool. Vol. VI.] 



8UPPLEMENTAKY KEPOKT upon the 



TESTACEOUS MOLLUSCA of the 



L.M.B.C. DISTKICT. 



By the late Francis Archer, B.A. 



[Read 13th May, 1892.] 



Editorial Xote. 



It is well known to members of the Biological Society 

 that for some years past the late Mr. F. Archer has had 

 charge of the Mollusca obtained in the dredging and other 

 collecting expeditions, and has been accmnmnlatmg 

 material for a report supplementary to that given by Mr. 

 E. D. Darbishire in the first volmne of the " Famia of 

 Liverpool Bay." 



During last winter Mr. Archer decided that his records 

 and notes were sufficiently complete to permit of publica- 

 tion this session, so the title of the report was printed on 

 the Society's circular for reading at the March meeting. 

 After his sudden death in February, and in consultation 

 with his brother Surgeon-Colonel S. Archer, it was decided 

 that the report (the materials for which were found very 

 carefully and systematically recorded in five large note 

 books) should be edited and published with as little delay 

 as possible, in order that it might be incorporated in the 

 forthcoming volume III of the ''Fauna" as originally 

 intended. At Surgeon-Colonel Archer's suggestion I 

 wrote to his brother's friend Mr. Brockton Tomlin, of 



