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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 71. NOVEMBER 1013. 



XLIX. — On a small Collection of Marine Shells from 

 Henderson Island. By E. A. Smith, I.S.O! 



[Tlate IX.] 



Henderson Island, also known as Elizabeth Island, is 

 situated in the South Pacific Ocean, being an outlier of the 

 Paumotu group, and not very remote from Pitcairn Island. 

 Captain F. W. Beechey, R.N., who investigated the island 

 in 1825, has given some account of it in his " Narrative of a 

 Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait in H.M.S. 

 f Blossom,' " 1831, vol. i. pp. 61-65. In the British Museum 

 are various specimens obtained on that voyage at the Pau- 

 inotus, and presented by Captain Beechey, and, although no 

 particular island is specified, it is quite possible that some of 

 them were collected at Henderson Island. It was apparently 

 visited by Hugh Cuming dining the early part of last century, 

 since a few species obtained by him when collecting in the 

 archipelago have been assigned to this island. Othercollectors 

 liavo since visited the Paumotus, but I have not observed 

 that any of them have recorded species from Henderson 

 Island. M. Couturier* has given an extensive list of tho 

 shells of this region, and it includes a large proportion of 

 those quoted in the following catalogue, excepting tho 

 bivalves, which he has not dealt with. 



The present collection was made by Mr. J. R. Jamieson, 

 assisted by Mr. D. R. Tait, and these gentlemen have 



* Journ. do Conch. 1007, pp. 123 L78. 

 Ann. cD Mag. N. Eist. Ser, 8. Vol. \ii. 30 



