6 RECENT AUSTRALIAN CONCHOLOGY, 



been recorded for our State. In all, Mr. Iredale collected 

 ninety-five species of Australian Polyplacophora. At his 

 request, to assist him in his studies, specimens of Chitons 

 in my collection were sent to him, in all forty-six species 

 or marked varieties, of which the majority have been re- 

 turned, while some are still under consideration. Kindly 

 recognition of the assistance given was made through 

 the Proceedings of the Malacological Society.* 



In a paper in Proc. Zool. Soc.,t Mr. Iredale deals with 

 A small collection of shells from the Montebello Islands, 

 W.A. As the Dampierian province stretches from Cape 

 York along the northern and western portions of Australia 

 to Shark Bay, it is not surprising that a number of the 

 species identified are found in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 ^nd much helpful work has been done in collating the 

 synonyms of well known species. 



The late Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, F.R.S., F.G.S., a 

 writer both on fossil and on recent shells, was specially 

 interested in Pelecypoda, and wrote a series of articles 

 in the proceedings of the Malacological Journal of which 

 Part II. appeared in Volume XI., Part II., June, 1914. 

 To this conchologist were forwarded specimens of all col- 

 lected species of the Venus family. Review of the shells 

 forwarded proved more conclusively than ever the great 

 want of a standard work on bivalves ; it also revealed the 

 overlapping of species, the distribution of shells under in- 

 correct names, and the simultaneous use of several synonyms 

 for one and the same shell. Mr. Jukes-Browne was specially 

 interested in Cytherea enibrithes, Melville and Standen, 

 whose astonishing similarity to the Madeiran Cytherea 

 ( Antigona) effossa, Phil, was shown on receipt of a specimen 

 irom my correspondent. Through a relative the sad news 

 has just come to hand of Mr. Jukes-Browne's death, after 

 much suffering, which did not keep him from carrjang 

 on his beloved studies to the last. His collection has been 

 left to Oxford University. His death, as his labours were 

 beginning to evolve order out of the chaos of bivalve nomen- 

 clature and classification, will be a distinct loss to all 

 students of this branch of natural history. 



*Loc. cit., Vol. XT, Pt. 2, p. 131. 

 t 1914, Pt. 3, p. 665. 



