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from the Eed Sea, showing more evidently a transit, or 

 link between the Lusitanian and Indo-Pacific Provinces, 

 and will enable us to distinguish niore accurately the typical 

 and endem ic species and genera frcm the aberrant and 

 expiring forms, throwing much more light upon their specific 

 and generic areas. I do not dwell on the self-evident expe- 

 diency of publishing Mr. Mamo's Enumeratio Systematica 

 Molluscorum with the necessary corrections. 



I should only beg to suggest that, in order to com- 

 plete it as much as possible, the Fossil Shells found in 

 the several beds of the Tertiary formation of Malta and 

 Gozo by Capt. Spratt and others, and specified by Prof. 

 Forbes and Dr. T. Wright, should be catalogued also 

 according to their natural place. 



In 1859 a Society of English savants through the 

 Colonial Minister demanded of our local Government all 

 works on local Natural History, and all Meteorological 

 observations taken in our latitude. I am sure that that Society 

 would have highly valued Mr. Mamo's work had it been 

 published. 



I intend to propose to Government the purchase of 

 the Collection, to form part of the Museum of Natural 

 History, and to allow the publication of Mr. Mamo's MSS. 

 at the Government press. If Government comply with 

 this request, as I have reason to hope, the copies might 

 be sold on behalf of our infant Society. 



