PREFACE. 
THE publication of this Atlas, to accompany the ‘‘ Manual of the New 
Zealand Mollusca,” published in December, 1913, has unfortunately 
been much delayed. 
When writing the Manual the late Director of the Dominion 
Museum, my much lamented friend Mr. A. Hamilton, kindly offered 
to superintend the arrangement of the plates for the Atlas and 
the necessary photographing of specimens. It was intended to 
publish the Manual and Atlas at the same time, but fate decided 
otherwise. 
I wish to express my deep-felt gratitude to the late Mr. A. 
Hamilton; to Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, Curator of the Auckland 
Museum, who kindly lent water-colour paintings of the forms 
reproduced on plates 36 and 37; to Mr. K. A. Smith, I.8.0., Editor 
of the ‘* Proceedings of the Malacological Society, London,” who lent 
me my own drawings from papers published; to Mr. McDonald of the 
Dominion Museum staff for the able way in which he photographed 
many specimens; to Mr. W. E. Spencer and Dr. J. A. Thomson for 
supervising the work on the plates of the Atlas; and, last but not 
least, to Mr. John Mackay, Government Printer, and his able staff 
for the pains they have taken to produce a work of which the 
Government may justly be proud. 
HENRY SUTER. 
Christchurch, January, 1915. 
