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Yictoi'ia in the paper issued by our Field Naturalists' Club. In 

 the following year the list was completed by the issue of 

 Part II. The list was much needed, and supplied an undoubted 

 want. It contained 351 species and 12 varieties, and some of 

 the commoner synonyms. Its summary is as follows : — 



In 1887 also the late Mr. J. Hracebridge Wilson furnished a 

 list to the Field Naturalists' Club of the species dredged by him 

 in the neighbourhood of Port Phillip Heads. Most of the species 

 were identified by Professor R. Tate and the list contains 142 

 species. As a member of the Port Phillip Biological Survey 

 Committee of the Royal Society, Mr. Wilson did a vast amount 

 of excellent collecting, and among the molluscan collection many 

 interesting and new forms and sevei'al not previously recordetl 

 for Victoria have turned up. We have to thank Professor 

 W. B. Spencer for kindly allowing us access to this material. 



For other records of and references to Victorian shells we must 

 draw attention to the various papers on the shells of the other 

 colonies, published many years ago by Messrs. A. Adams and 

 G. F. Angas; and more recently by Dr. Cox, Messrs. J. Brazier 

 and C. Hedley of New South Whales; and Professor R. Tate, 

 Mr. W. T. Bednall, and Dr. Verco of South Austi-alia. 



In the year 1891 one of the present authors was asked by 

 Professor R. Tate of the Adelaide University to prepare a cata- 

 logue of Victorian Mollusca, and he very kindly allowed access to 

 his own notes and records of the species then known to him. Since 

 that time a good deal of revision has been done and a vast amount 

 of material, both literary and otherwise, has been collected. We 

 hope that in its present form the catalogue may prove useful to 

 those interested in the shells of our waters. 



In July of last year (1896) we had the pleasure of seeing Mv. 

 E. R. Sykes's excellent report on Mr. J. B. Wilson's collection of 

 Port Phillip Polyplacophora which includes the very respectable 



