4 RECEXT ATJSTRALIAlSr CONCHOLOGY. 



one cruise from Melbourne to Nuyt's Archipelago, W. 

 Australia, when he obtained specimens of some three 

 hundred and fifty species, the greatest haul being made 

 in the neighbourhood of Cape Wiles, South Australia. 

 In his report on the Mollusca obtained by the F.I.S. "En- 

 deavour," chiefly off Cape Wiles, South Australia, the 

 writer gives a list of Adelaidean species, and describes a 

 number of new shells. The most important feature 

 of the paper is a separation uncier Carpenter's titJe — Amphi- 

 thalamus — of a section of the swoUen genus Rissoa. The 

 Australian species and their synonyms are given for the 

 benefit of systematists generally. In Part II. of the same 

 series, Sydney, 2nd February, 1914, a number of large shells 

 taken in the Australian Bight are described, some being 

 new species, and various changes in classification are 

 indicated. 



One of the most important of recent additions to 

 Australian Conchology is Mr. Hedley's " Notes in Museums 

 Abroad "■ forming Part XI. of " Studies of Austrahan 

 Mollusca." In conjunction with Mr. E. A. Smith, the 

 Conchologist of the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington, the writer examined many critical and doubtful 

 species, each of which is discussed ab length, and notes 

 on their localities, synonyms, etc., are given. Much of 

 this information was supplied by the learned British con- 

 chologist, his opportunities in chaige of the South Kensing- 

 ton collection having made him (j^e of the arbiters in mol- 

 luscan determination. 



]VIr. Hedley also visited Newcastle, England, to study 

 G. F. Angas's Australian land-shells, and Geneva, where 

 Lamarck's priceless collection is housed in the city museum. 

 Of this collection the well known conchologists Kiener 

 and Chenu were in turn curators. The result of Mr. Hedley's 

 critical studies is the relegation to the position of synonyms 

 of many names that have swollen Australian lists, 

 and recommendations that some twenty-four species be 

 struck off as incorrect recognitions, or because they have 

 never been figured, or from the habitat proving to be outside 

 Australian waters, etc.. Objection has already been given* 



* Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Q., 1914, XXVI., 48. 



