Mollusca. 



1840. 



About 900 shells from South Africa were pnrcha ed in 1840 

 from Dr. Ferdinand Krauss, who subsequently published the 

 work entitled "Die Siidairikanischen Mollusken," in I S 



1841. 



In this year, and during the years 1846 and Is 17. numerous 

 purchases of shells were made from Berr Parrej 

 Vienna. Many of these specimens are valuable 

 accompanied by the MS. names he was in the habil of inventing, 

 and which, in many instances, have been adopted by subsequent 

 writers. 



1842. 



In the year 1843, Mr. J. E. Gray, who was then keeper of the 

 Zoological Department, published a list of the known sh< 

 New Zealand in an Appendix to Vol. II (pp. 228 

 Dr. E. Dieffenbach's work, "Travels in New Zealand." This li-t 

 was partly based upon a series of specimens presented t,, the 

 Museum by Dr. Dieffenbach in 1842, and also includes the 

 species presented by the Rev. W. Yate in 1835 and enumi 

 by J. E. Gray in Mr. Yate's "Account of New Zealand," 

 pp. 307-310. A number of new species were described in both 

 of the above mentioned works. Large additions were also made 

 to the New Zealand collection of Mollusca by Dr. Stanger in 

 1841, Dr. Sinclair in 1842, 1851, and 1857, Lt.-Col. Bolt.. ,. |;.|;.. 

 and Capt. Stokes, R.N., in 1852. 



About 1100 shells from the West Coast of Centra] America, 

 California, New Guinea, Fiji, Tahiti, Sandwich [slands, etc., were 

 presented in 1842 by R. B. Hinds, Esq., which had been 

 collected by him during a voyage round the world in B.M.S 

 Sulphur, under the command of Capt. Sir Edward Belcher. Two 

 years later the latter presented 79 co-types "t' species described 

 by Hinds in the Zoology of the voyage, and. in 1851, at the 

 sale of Capt. Belcher's collection, 2324 additional specimens 

 purchased. 



1842-43. 



The next important acquisition was the purchase in 18 I 2 and 

 1843 of about 1800 shells from Mr. H. Cuming, by whom 

 they were collected, many of the Bpecies haying recently 



described. 



VOL. II. 



