BY WwW. L. MAY. 5 
logued amounts to 1048 species, including 957 classed as 
marine, 55 land, and 36 freshwater. The marine species 
included by Tate and May numbered about 560, so that, 
notwithstanding that a considerable number have been 
deleted, so many have been added that we here have about 
400 additional species in the marine alone. I wish here to 
record my great indebtedness to Mr. C. Hedley for his 
generous assistance with information and advice, so ungrudg- 
ingly given, and also my thanks for much useful help from 
the leading conchologists of other States. In conclusion, it 
must be admitted that a list of names is but a skeleton; still, 
such is an absolute necessity as a foundation on which to 
build, and I hope it may eventually be possible to advance 
to a complete manual, with full descriptions, and, better still, 
figures of all species, with full details of life-history, habitat, 
&c., somewhat similar to the ‘‘ Manual of the New Zealand 
? 
Mollusca,’’ lately published by the Government of the 
Dominion; or, still better, such a work as Jeffrey’s ‘‘ British 
? 
Conchology,’’ which should greatly popularise the study of 
this fascinating group. I trust the list will be found useful 
to a fairly large audience of those interested in natural science. 
Sandford, January, 1921. 
