216 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NOTES ON THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF THE PARTS OF 

 KIENER'S " SPECIES GENERAL ET ICONOGRAPHIE DES 

 COQUILLES VIVANTES," Etc. (1834-80). 



By C. Davies Sherboen, F.Z.S., etc., and B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., etc. 



Read 12th April, 1901. 



So much, difficulty has been experienced by malacologists in 

 ascertaining the dates of the various parts of this work and their 

 contents, that no apology, we are sure, is necessary for offering the 

 results of an effort to clear the matter up. The account is fairly 

 complete, but some gaps remain, and we shall be very glad indeed to 

 hear from anyone able to fill up these lacunae. 



The sources of our information have been the lists of presentations 

 to the French Academy as published in the Institut and the Comptes 

 Rendus of the Academy, the weekly records of the Bibliographie de la 

 France, the Journal de Conchyliologie, Wiegmann's Archiv fur 

 NaturgeschicMe, the Nouvelles Annales du Museum d'Histoire naturelle 

 de Paris, the second edition of Lamarck's Histoire naturelle des 

 Animaux sans Yertebres (the dates of issue of the volumes have 

 been checked by the dates of presentation to the Paris Academy), and 

 Beeve's Conchologia Iconica. 



The work appeared in 165 livraisons, of which 138 were by Kiener 

 and published between 1834 and 1850; the work was finished off 

 (rather than completed) by Dr. P. Fischer in 1873 to 1879. The 

 first 138 livraisons contained, as a rule, one sheet of text and six plates. 



The dates of issue and contents of the several livraisons, so far as 

 ascertainable, were as follows : — 



iText to MargineUa, Tornatella, 

 Thracia, and Buccin. (Nouv. 

 Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, 

 torn, iii, p. 512.) 

 Bibl. Fr. cites livr. 1 on Mar. 1, 1834 (2 sh., 6 pis.), and livr. 1 

 and 2 in one part (3 sh., 12 pis.) on May 3, 1834. 

 7,8, ... 1835. \Eburne, Casque, 



9, 18 May, 1835 : Inst., torn, iii, p. 161. I Cassidaire, Tonne, and 



10, 15 June, 1835 : ,, ,, p. 193. > Pourpre. (Nouv. Ann. 



11, 17 Aug., 1835 : Cornpt. Rend., torn, i, p. 51. I Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, 



12, 26 Oct , 1835: ,, „ p. 289. / torn, iv, p. 430.) 

 Troschel cites the contents of livr. 1-9 as text to Thracia, MargineUa, 

 Harpa, Buccinum, Pyramidella, and Tornatella, with the plates for 

 Eburna and Cassis. (Wieg. Arch., 1835, Bd. ii, p. 308.) Therefore 

 the contents of livr. 7-9 should be Harpa and Pyramidella. 



Compt. Rend., torn, i, p. 517. 

 ,, torn, ii, p. 151. 



„ p. 300. 

 ,, ,, p. 445. 



Troschel gives the contents of livr. 10-16 as Eburna, Cassis, Cassi- 

 daria, Dolium, Ricinula, and Purpura. (Wieg. Arch., 1836, Bd. ii, 

 p. 207.) 



