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Europe, but also embraces many classical collections which he 

 had purchased, such as those of Turton, Clark, and Weinkauff, 

 has been purchased by the United States Government, and will 

 find its resting place in the National Museum at Washington. 

 It was offered at what was really a nominal price for purchase to 

 the British Museum, but was declined by the authorities. That 

 this great reference collection should be now inaccessible is a 

 grievous loss, not only to British, but to European conchologists. 

 The collections of the Marine Invertebrata of Europe in our 

 National Museum are far short of what they ought to be and 

 sadly behind the day. 



A series, however, of the deep sea forms collected by the 

 ' Lightning,' ' Porcupine,' ' Valorous,' ' Knight Errant,' and 

 ' Triton ' Expeditions will be in the British Museum, and we 

 trust that Mr. Edgar A. Smith will complete in the ' Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society ' that portion of the publication of the 

 species procured in the two first named expeditions which un- 

 fortunately remains unfinished at the time of Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys' 

 death, but for the completion of which he left ample materials. 



THE MARINE SHELLS OF SCILLY. 



BY 



The rev. R. W. J. SMART, M.A., 



LATE CURATE-IN-CHARGE OF TRESCO, SCILLY, 



AND 



The rev. A. H. COOKE, M.A., F.Z.S., 



MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, CAMBRIDGE. 



The marine zoology of the Scilly Islands must always, from the 

 geographical situation of that group, be an object of extreme 

 interest. It seems remarkable that no list of Scillonian moUusca 

 of any scientific value has as yet been published, and that no 

 very systematic attempt has been made to ascertain the re- 

 sources of the seas surrounding the isles, in this branch of 

 science. 



The earliest recorded dredging work among the islands was 

 done by Lord Vernon about a quarter of a century ago. A list 



