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Chester, and asked him to undertake the responsible work 
of putting the notes and records in proper form for the 
printer. This Mr. Tomlin kindly consented to do, and 
the following report has accordingly been arranged and 
corrected by him. I wish as editor of these L.M.B.C. 
reports to thank Mr. Tomlin, and express the satisfaction 
of the Committee, that one so eminently qualified both as 
a conchologist and also from his knowledge of Mr. Archer’s 
collections and notes and methods should have been found 
willing to undertake this work, and carry it out without 
delay. The following introduction is by Mr. Tomlin. 
W. Awa 
INTRODUCTION. 
This Report is strictly supplementary, and must be read 
entirely by the side of that in vol. I of the ‘“ Fauna,” 
pp. 232—266. Nor must it be supposed that all new 
records are included, especially in the case of the com- 
moner species, the aim being primarily to record extensions 
in the habitat or apparent habitat of the species, but not 
to publish all the occurrences of dead specimens, while our 
knowledge of the district is so imperfect and the collecting 
disconnected. It will be noticed that the chief centres of 
thorough exploration since last report have been Port 
Erin in the Isle of Man and the N. and EH. coasts of 
Anglesea, all worked by the late F. Archer: the Southport 
neighbourhood by Dr. G. W. Chaster: Fleetwood by W. 
H. Heathcote and others: and the central area by means 
of several dredging expeditions, the details of which will be 
found in the successive annual reports upon the work of 
the L.M.B.C. 
