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CHAPTER IX. 



OLLUSCA. 



Authorities. Edible Mollusca. Eock Shells, Whelks, 

 and Cone Shells. Turret, Wreath, and Ear Shells. Snails, 

 Echini, and Mussels. Brachiopoda and Pteropoda. 



THERE is in the Public Library a large col- 

 lection of Malta shells which should be examined 

 by any one who feels an interest in this branch of 

 Natural History. Captain Spratt R. N. and the 

 Revd. H. Seddall were amongst others, zealous col- 

 lectors, and in an appendix to his well known work 

 "Malta Past and Present," the latter has given much 

 useful information as to the places which will best 

 repay a search. In the first volume of the Medi- 

 cal Scientific Journal "II Earth" there is (p. 193), 

 the first portion of a classification of the terrestrial 

 and aquatic mollusca of these islands by the Cav. 

 Luigi Benoit and Dr. Gavino Gulia. It is much 

 to be hoped that the remaining portion will ere 

 long see the light. 



The late Sig. G. Mamo, in the course of 47 

 years collected in the Maltese islands and adjacent 



