Dr. A. A. Caruana' s Report on the MSS. and Collection of 

 Shells of the late Mr. Giuseppe Mamo, read on the 13th 

 March, 1866, to the Society of Arehseology, History, 

 and Natiiral Sciences. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, — 



1. I have the honor to offer you the followiug information 

 on the MSS. and Collection of Shells helonging to the late 

 Mr. Giuseppe Mamo, of the Central Hospital, for which oh- 

 ject a Committee was appointed in January last and formed of 

 Mr. Furse the Secretary, Dr. F. Spiteri Agins, Mr. C. A. 

 Wright, and myself. 



2. Before this Society of Archseology, History, and Na- 

 tural Sciences was instituted, I had already entered, with the 

 widow and sons of my deceased friend, on the preliminaries of 

 sale of Mr. Mamo's copious collection of shells, that it 

 might remain in some one or other of the Puhlic Educational 

 Estahlishinents in this Island, and his MSS. on the 

 Gaulo-Maltese Fauna Molluscorum had heen handed over to 

 me that I might examine and puhlish them, and thus offer a 

 public homage to my lamented and leamed friend. 



For this purpose I had prepared a careful catalogue of 

 the genera and species, with the Author's name, the country, 

 and number of examples, and all such other particulars which 

 I found noted down. I have omitted the speeific name of 

 many examples, especially of the Acephala, because many of 

 them bear numbers referable to Catalogues, which neither 

 Mrs. Mamo nor I could find amongst the papers in my pos- 

 session ; and further, because others had parted with their 

 labels, and I did not wish to undertake the responsibility of 

 namjng them. 



