340 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



ON THE MacANDREW COLLECTION OF BRITISH 

 SHELLS. 



By a. H. COOKE, M.A., F.Z.S., 



Curator of the Zoological Museum, Cambridge University. 



The late Mr. Robert MacAndrew, of Liverpool, left to the 

 University of Cambridge, in 1873, his valuable collection of Shells 

 and an important library of conchological works. 



The object of the publication of these brief notes on the 

 British portion of the collection is threefold. Firstly, to serve as 

 a small contribution to the memory of a gentleman who has done 

 so much for the science by his dredgings in the North Atlantic, 

 the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Suez, and off the Western Islands. 

 Secondly, to let it be known that there exists a collection of this 

 kind, easily accessible, to which reference can be made by 

 collectors. Thirdly, in the hope that any conchologists who have 

 the power may also have the good will to supply the very few 

 desiderata, so that the collection may be, so far as any collection 

 can be, perfect of its kind. 



Of the six species of Brachiopoda which inhabit the British 

 seas (Terebratula Spitzbergensis Davids., hardly having sufficient 

 claim to rank among the list) the MacAndrew collection contains 

 representatives of 5, the absentee being Argiope decollata Chemn. 

 But since Guernsey is its northernmost recorded locality, this 

 shell, in common with Murex corallinus Scacchi, Haliotis tuber- 

 culata L., Cardium papUlosiiin Phil, Teredo pedicellata Quatref., 

 etc., can only be considered in a political and not a geographical 

 sense an inhabitant of the British Islands. 



Of about 159 recorded species of Conchifera, the collec- 

 tion contains 146. Some of these are represented by very fine 

 series in jvery stage of growth, others by only a single specimen. 

 I subjoin a list of the species not contained, a glance at which 



J.C, iii., July, 1882 



