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SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT upon the 
TESTACEOUS MOLUUSCA of the 
tee OC DIS Pr Rie®. 
By a LATE Francois ARCHER, B.A. 
[Read 13th May, 1892.] 
EDITORIAL NOTE. 
Ir is well known to members of the Biological Society 
that for some years past the late Mr. F. Archer has had 
charge of the Mollusca obtained in the dredging and other 
collecting expeditions, and has been accummulating 
material for a report supplementary to that given by Mr. 
R. D. Darbishire in the first volume of the ‘‘ Fauna of 
Liverpool Bay.” 
During last winter Mr. Archer decided that his records 
and notes were sufficiently complete to permit of publica- 
tion this session, so the title of the report was printed on 
the Society’s circular for reading at the March meeting. 
After his sudden death in February, and in consultation 
with his brother Surgeon-Colonel 8. Archer, it was decided 
that the report (the materials for which were found very 
carefully and systematically recorded in five large note 
books) should be edited and published with as little delay 
as possible, in order that it might be incorporated in the 
forthcoming volume III of the “‘ Fauna” as originally 
intended. At Surgeon-Colonel Archer’s suggestion I 
wrote to his brother’s friend Mr. Brockton Tomlin, of 
