214 melvill: British pioneers in conchological science. 



with Messrs. Cuming, Adams, and Broderip, and he concurred 

 with them in much Conchological work of the greatest benefit to 

 the Science generally. His two subsequent works were "Ele- 

 ments of Conchology," 2 vols., and " The Land and Freshwater 

 Mollusks of Great Britain," i vol. 



June 29th, 1842, is famous as the date on which the 

 Committee, appointed by the British Association, who met that 

 year at Manchester, completed their report on the "Series of 

 propositions for rendering the nomenclature of Zoology uniform 

 and permanent," the law of priority, dating from xii. ed. of 

 Linnaeus' Systema Naturse, being then enforced in all cases, as 

 it was then the bi-nomial system may be said to have commenced. 

 This report was signed by twelve well-known scientific men, 

 including Prof. Owen, C. Darwin, W. J. Broderip, and Rev. 

 L. Jenyns, now Blomefield. 



In 1835 the voyage of the "Rattlesnake" started, the 

 narrative of which has been so pleasingly treated of by Mac- 

 Gillivray. 



In 1845 Miss Agnes Catlow, a lady who had already pub- 

 lished a popular work on " Conchology, or the Shell Cabinet 

 Arranged," joined Mr. Lovell Reeve in preparing a Catalogue 

 of all known Recent Shells. At this time they only numbered 

 about 8000. The synonymy was also given, and the catalogue 

 for a time superseded that of Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Gray. 



Mr. Samuel Stutchbury, the son of a mathematical instru- 

 ment dealer in London, was, in 1825, engaged as naturalist of 

 an expedition to the Pearl Fisheries of the Pacific Ocean, and 

 soon afterwards became curator of the Bristol Institution, where 

 he had the privilege of instructing, among others, the Rev. 

 P. P. Carpenter. In 1843 he visited New Holland, and made 

 large collections of Natural History. His chief conchological 

 paper was in the Magazine of Natural History, Series 2, p. 114, 

 " On Cyprascassis," in which by the form alone, he attempted 

 to prove an intimate connection between Cyprsea and Cassis 

 through C. testiaiJus and C. mfa. He died at Bristol, aged 6i, 



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