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"A thousand tablets were mounted during the year, and the 

 contents of the old exhibition balustrade cases transferred to the 

 new ones provided for the purpose." 



A most laudable effort was made by Mr. Hedley to place on a 

 firmer basis a number of Australian shells, described in the past 

 by a few authors in a more or less haphazard manner. A paper 

 of this description is his "New or Unfigured Australian Shells,"' 

 in which he figured five old species described without illustrations ; 

 a second, "Revision of the Types of the Marine Shells of the 

 'Chevert' Expedition,"^" from tropical Queensland coasts, and now 

 in the Macleay Museum. Thirty of these "neglected species" 

 were figured, and placed on a satisfactory basis. A third paper, 

 "Studies in Australian Mollusca,"" rescued seven old unfigured 

 forms from oblivion; and a fourth and last paper,^- Part 4 of 

 the preceding, accounts for four other shells previously little 

 understood, and concludes with some pertinent remarks on the 

 'Challenger' Australian Station, known as "164 B," from which 

 a number of North Atlantic shells are said to have been obtained 

 during the voyage of the vessel in question. Mr. Hedley's supposi- 

 tion that this should read "64 B," a Mid- Atlantic Station, cor- 

 roborated as it is by other facts, is so obvious that one wonders it 

 has remained so long unsolved. 



One of our most steadfast voluntary collectors, Mr. A. U. Henn, 

 assisted by his brother, the Rev. P. U. Henn, both of Geraldton, 

 W. A., surpassed his previous efforts by forwarding no less than ten 

 hundred and sixty-eight specimens from that neighbourhood, thus 

 providing us with a good collection of W.A. temperate Mollusca. 

 These shells are of especial value by affording Mr. Hedley a 

 knowledge of some of the forms originally described by Mr. C. J. 

 Menke in his little-known work "Molluscorum Novae-Hollandise 

 Specimen," 1840, and except through this otherwise lost to history. 



Mr. T. Nishikawa presented four Meleagrina rnartensii, Dunker, 

 from the Bay of Agu, Japan ; Mrs. G. J. Waterhouse, a constant 

 donor, added to our collection a fine specimen of Pandopcea aus- 

 tralis, Sby., with the siphons fully extended; and Mr. A. G. 

 Waterhouse presented the type of Cantharus waterhousice, des- 

 cribed some years ago by Mr. J. Brazier,^^ from Botany. 



There was no more liberal donor during the year than Mr. 

 Hedley himself. He presented to the Trustees 1,798 specimens 

 from Japan, this continent, and various islands in the Pacific, 

 with the conchological results of his Barrier Reef trip, consisting 



9 Hedley— £ec. Aust. Mus., iv., 1, 1901, p. 22. 



10 Hedley — Loc. cit., 3, p. 121, pis. xvi. and xvii. 



11 Hedley— Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxv.. 4, 1901. p. 721, pi. xlviii. 



12 Hedley — Loc. cit., xxv., 1, 1901, p. 16, pi. IL 



13 Brazier— Loc. cit., xxi., 3, 1896, p. 345. 



