ADDITIONS TO THE MARINE MOEEUSCA 

 OF QUEENSLAND. 



By JOHN SHIRLEY, B.Sc. 



(Senior Inspector of Schools). 



Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 24th Sepember^- 



1910. 



At the meeting of the Australasian Association, held in 

 Brisbane in January, 1909, the first list of the known 

 Marine Mollusc a of Queensland was published by Mr. 

 Charles Hedley, Assistant Curator, Australian Museum,. 

 Sydney. This list forms part of the Presidential Address 

 to Section D., Biology, comprised in pp. 343-371, of 

 Volume xii., of the Proceedings of the Association. Pages 

 809-810 of the same volume contain a supplement to the 

 main list. In all, some 1900 species are catalogued. 



The following additions are drawn from a review of 

 the cabinets of my son, Mr. Kay Shirley, who has been 

 collecting for the past six years, and whom I have helped 

 in every possible way. Owing to the greatly increased 

 interest in natural history, many teachers of schools in the 

 coastal toAvns have made collections of f^marine shells, and 

 from these I have received many parcels for naming. This 

 has given me an opportunity to study the mollusc a from 

 a very wide stretch of coast. I take this opportunity to 

 thank Mr. F. Barrett, of Cairns ; Mr. John Fewtrell, 

 formerly of Townsville West, now District Inspector of 

 Schools ; Mr. I vie Murchie and Mr. Long, of Normanton : 

 Mr. E. Saunders, of Bo wen ; Mr. C. Kemp, formerly of 

 Gladstone ; Mr. Joseph Hirst, formerly of Bulwer, Moreton 

 Island ; Mr. W. Noon, Yeppoon ; and Mr. James Bruce^ 

 of Murray Island, Torres Straits, whose collections have 

 enabled me to add many species to the Queensland list. 



