2o6 melvill: British pioneers in conchological science. 



Nautilus pompilius. Though this great naturaUst has pubhshed 

 innumerable papers, all of much scientific value, upon almost 

 every branch of Biology and Geology, there are few groups he has 

 studied with more marked success than the Cephalopoda, both 

 in recent and fossil state. He is still happily amongst us, and 

 we will therefore content ourselves with saying nihil est quod fion 

 tetigit, nihil tetigit qtwd non ornavit. 



In 1832 the Rev. Leonard Jenyns (now Blomefield), who 

 still happily survives at a very advanced age, as Father of the 

 Linnean Society of London, wrote a "Monograph on the British 

 species of Cyclas and Pisidiumr 



Dr. George Johnston the same year gave a short story on 

 " The Natural History of Molluscus Animals." 



Rear- Admiral Philip Parker King, R.N. (then Lieutenant), 

 (1793 — 1856), had in 181 7 been entrusted to complete Captain 

 Flinder's survey of the coasts of New Holland, and made four 

 voyages there altogether, first in the "Mermaid " Cutter, and then 

 in the " Bathurst " Sloop. Dr. J. E. Gray described the mollusca 

 of this expedition. In 1825 Captain King was appointed to the 

 command of the Sloop "Adventure," with orders to survey the 

 Southern Coasts of South America, with Tierra del Fuego, In 

 1830 he returned to England, leaving Captain Fitzroy to com- 

 plete the remainder of the survey, and to publish the account of 

 the expedition of H.M.S. "Adventure" and "Beagle" between 

 the years 1826 and 1836. Mr. Broderip, to whoni we shall soon 

 allude, assisted Admiral King in the conchological portion of 

 this narrative, the Admiral himself publishing in Zool. Jour., v, 

 332, an article " On the Cirrhipedia, Conchifera, and Mollusca 

 collected by the officers of H.M.S. "Adventure" and "Beagle," 

 1826 — 30," as well as some ornithological articles. 



The mention of H.M.S. " Beagle " cannot fail to recall that 

 standard work of travel "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the 

 World," by Charles Darwin. This model of what such an 

 account should be, dedicated to Sir Charles Lyell, touches in a 

 graphic manner on all and every subject dear to Naturalists of 



J.C., vi., Apr., 1850. 



