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scopic proportions, to the full-sized shell. A considerable 

 number of the species were collected within the Liverpool 

 Bay. Mr. McAndrew was President of the Liverpool Literary 

 and Philosophical Society in 1855. 



By far the best and most important memoir claiming to 

 be here noticed, has been thus mentioned* : — 



Fauna of Liverpool, by Isaac Byerley, F.L.S., M.R.C.S.E., 

 Literary and Philosophical Society. Appendix to Pro- 

 ceedings, vol. viii., 1853-54, pp. 125. 



Species, Mammalia 42, Aves 195, Reptilia 5, Amphibia 6, Pisces 100, 

 Mollusca 18), Crustacea 70, Lepidoptera 714, Annelides 33, 

 Acalepha3 12, Ecliinodermata 11, Hydrozoa 35, Anthozoa 6, 

 Polyzoa 26, Spongia 5. 



A valuable work, the best portions of which are those which were 

 contributed mainly through Mr. Byerley's own investigations. 



During the excursions of the L. M. B. C. in the summer 

 and autumn of 1885, so small a number of vertebrate animals 

 was collected that it was thought better to defer an account 

 of previous work done in this department till the appearance 

 of a second volume ; more especially, since a very considerable 

 amount of interesting materials might be collected from 

 various sources. Long lists of Mammalia, Aves, and Pisces, 

 are given by Mr. Byerley in his Fauna, often accompanied 

 by valuable details, especially in the fishes. Our esteemed 

 friend, Mr. T. J. Moore, Curator of the Public Museum, 

 has given some short but valuable communications on our 

 locally-collected vertebrate animals to the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society. Most of these, but not all, have 

 been noticed in the Proceedings of the Society. Occurrences 

 of rare species are described in scattered records, which may 

 possibly require careful weeding, as well as industrious 

 finding. 



* List of local papers on Nat. Hist., L. N. F. C. Proceedings, 1874. 



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