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in the proceedings of the Society. Its lack of localities greatly 
lessens its value. 
(4). 1862. Our Edible Mollusea. Colonial Review, Halifax, 
Nov. 29th, 1862, and the three following numbers. 
Only a single copy of this list is known to be extant, and that 
is in the possession of Mrs, John Willis, of Halifax. Its rather 
curious history has been carefully studied out by Mr. Piers. “ In 
March 1852, Professor Baird asked Willis to send him the MSS. 
of the article on Edible Mollusca for publication, a request which 
he repeated in June. In April of the same year Willis read it 
before the N. S. Literary and Scientific Society. “ previous to its 
transmission to the Smithsonian.” But it apparently was never 
sent, for it does not appear in the Smithsonian publications, but 
was published in November in the Colonial Review. This jour- 
nal, as Mr. Piers has discovered after much careful inquiry, was 
published in Halifax and suffered an early demise after the issue 
of only half a dozen numbers. It was a four columned (10x115 
inch) paper whose editor was known only by his nom de plume, 
and the place of publication of which was not generally known. 
Three numbers contain the interesting paper on Nova Scotian 
Economie Mollusca, while the fourth contained a complete list of 
all known Nova Scotian shells. The date of the first issue alone 
is known to us, those of the other three not appearing on Mrs. 
Willis’ copy. The first three articles, with the exception of a 
single paragraph and one or two sentences, were reprinted word 
for word in Thomas F. Knight’s “ Descriptive Catalogue of the 
Fishes of Nova Scotia” (Halifax, 1866, pp. 43-53), a work which 
is easily accessible. This was an admirable statement of the 
value of Nova Scotian Mollusca to man, and has been freely 
quoted and its substantial assistance acknowledged in a late work 
on the “ Economic Mollusca of Acadia,” published by the New 
Brunswick Natural History Society. 
The fourth number contained a list of Nova Scotian shells. 
Mr. Piers tells us that this was very like his latest list, which 
is reprinted below. It included only two names which are not 
in the latter, which are Cellularia fastigiata, Blum., and Cellw- 
laria turrita, Desor, two Polyzoans. With these exceptions 
