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adjacent islands to the north and Qorth-east. In an Appendix 

 to Vol. II. of his narrative of fche voyage, L9 new s] i 

 described by Prof. E. Forbes, and these, together with abort 

 170 other specimens, were presented by .Mr. Macgillivray. L789 

 additional specimens from this voyage were also received from 

 the Museum of Economic Geology, Jermyn Street, daring the 

 years 1859-1860. 



1854. 



A large collection of the land and fresh-water BheU 

 Jamaica was presented this year (1854) by the Bon. E. Chitty. 

 It consisted of 389 species, represented by 2665 Bpecimi 



428 specimens, purchased of Mr. Parzudaki, are of into 

 as they comprise many Pteropods, etc., obtained by .MM. Eydonx 

 and Souleyet and M. Gaudichaud during the v< i the 



Bonite, 1836-1837, which were described in the accounl of the 

 voyage, and also in the work entitled, "Histoire nature! 

 Mollusques Pteropodes," etc., by MM. Pang and Souleyet. A 

 catalogue of these specimens by J. E. Gray was published by the 

 Trustees in 1855. 



In this year also were obtained by purchase from .M . Al< 

 d'Orbigny (1) the collection (4537 specimens) described by him 

 in the account of his "Voyage dans i'Amerique Meridio] 

 etc.; (2) the shells, 2545 in number, described in M. Ramon de 

 la Sagra's work, entitled, "Histoire physique, politiqn 

 naturelle, de File de Cuba"; and (3) the type specimens (542 in 

 number) described by M. d'Orbigny in the "Histoire naturelle 

 des lies Canaries," by MM. P. Barker-Webb and Sal. in Ber 

 thelot. Lists of these three important acquisitions, compiled bj 

 J. E. Gray, were published by the Trustees in the year 1854. 



1855. 



This year (1855) 1242 shells from the Canary Islands and 

 1280 from Spain, Portugal and Mogador were presented by 

 K. McAndrew, Esq. This acquisition was important, as illus- 

 trative of his papers entitled, " On the geographical distribution 

 of Testaceous Mollusca in the Nbrth-easl Atlantic and neigh 

 bouring seas," Liverpool Lit. Phil. Soc. Proc. viii. pp. 

 (1853-4), and "Notes on the distribution and ran-.' in depth of 

 Mollusca and other marine animals observed on the 



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