412 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICE 
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICE 
OF WILLIS PUBLISHED PAPERS. ‘ 
The Publications of John Willis were not numerous, and so far 
as they are known to the editor they are as follows, arranged 
chronologically : 
(1). 1857 (2). [A list of Shells of Nova Scotia, with explana- 
tory letter.] Church Record (?), Halifax (?), Oct. 17, 1857, (2). 
THE only copy known to us of this interesting list, which as 
the citation below shows, was the first written by Willis, is 
owned by Mr. W. H. Dali, of Washington, to whom we are 
indebted for the opportunity of examining it. It is a clipping 
from a newspaper and has the date given above (Oct. 17, 1857) 
written in ink clearly upon it. It is unfortunately torn irregu- 
larly across the top so as to partly obliterate the printed name 
of the paper in which it appeared. But the words “ FOR THE 
CuuRcH ” can be clearly seen, with some fragments of letters fol- 
lowing, from which Mr. Piers has surmised that the paper was 
the “ Church Record,” a paper published about that time in Hali- 
fax. Mr. Piers has found several clippings among Mr. Willis’ 
papers which were taken from the “ Church Record ” acknowled- 
ging donations made by him to King’s College, etc., so it seems 
quite certain that Mr. Piers’ surmise expresses the truth. We 
have no reason to believe that the written date is not the correct 
one, and the shortness of the list compared with later ones proves 
that it is much earlier that these of 1862 and 1863. 
The list gives generic and specific names only, arranged alpha- 
betically, with no localities. It includes ninety-one species, some 
of which are shelled Crustacea or Echinodermata. It contains 
many misprints. It is signed “John R. Willis, National School, 
Halifax,” and is preceded by a short letter which is so character- 
istic of the man that we reproduce it entire: 
