Malta and Gozo, 13 or 14 species of which he diseovered aud 

 described, and for having supplied the Curators of theprin- 

 cipal collectious of Europo with many hitherto unknown 

 species. 



This is the information, I am able to give about Mr. 

 Mamo's Collection of Shells. I will now proceed to addrcss 

 you on his MSS, and other papers which I received tied up 

 in four bundles. 



5. Most of these papers contain only lists and memoran- 

 da about shells received by, and sent to, several Collectors 

 of Shells, and Naturalists. I have put them together in one 

 bundle. 



6. Oue MS., and some loose papers are of no importanco 

 with reference to our Fauna of Mollusca, because they con- 

 tain only a short description of several known species, and 

 some generalities referable to Testacea, which were evidently 

 extracted from publishcd works, ckiefly, I believe, from 

 Sowerby's genera. 



7. There are four more MSS , the most interesting 

 amongst all the papers received by me, which I have 

 numbered in succession No. 1, 2, 3, and 4; for they contain 

 a systematic enumeration of tho Maltese Mollusca according 

 to Lamarck, and a Memorandum No. 5 of the Maltese 

 Shells, which in 1854 the late Mr. Mamo placed in the 

 Public Library, in compliance with Sir W. Reid' s pleasure. 



Although these four MSS., are in snbstance the same, 

 nevertheless they exhibit a great many varialions, and in 

 order to extract from them a complete and accurate syste- 

 matic euumeration of the Gaulo-Maltcse Testacea for pub- 

 lication, it is necessary they should be compared together 

 successively, with great attcntion and diligencc, and works 

 which Mr. Mamo consulted should be referrcd to for the 

 purpose of clearing up differences arisiug from the synonyms 

 of words, and all those which imply corrections, separations 

 of genera, additions of ncw specics and substitutions of 

 othcrs, aud for tho purpose .of reducing into one MS., all 

 the observations scattered over the other four MSS. 



MS. No. 1 contains a simple and very limited enu- 



