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One of the greatest mistakes ever made in reaped of this 

 collection was for the specimens to have been mounted upon 

 tablets by Mrs. Gray. For this purpose nearly the whole of the 

 collection was carried drawer by drawer across an open court 

 yard, resulting in many labels being blown into wrong p 

 and being gummed to the wrong tablets. The amount of 

 entailed in remounting, and righting these mistakes, hat 

 enormous, and much still remains to be done. 



1868. 



Among the large collections made by Dr. R. < >. Cunningham 

 in 1866-69 during the voyage of H.M.S. Nassau on the W< 

 Coast of Patagonia and in the Straits of Magellan, were many 

 specimens of Mollusca. About 1100 examples were presented to 

 the Museum by the Lords of the Admiralty, and Borne account of 

 them was given by Dr. Cunningham in the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society, vol. xxvii. (1871). 



1870. 



During this and the following year the Museum received a 

 series of Mollusca from Mrs. Knocker, which had been coll 

 by her husband, the late Capt. Knocker, R.N., at Whydah and 

 other places on the West Coast of Africa. The collection coi 

 of about 630 specimens, including the remarkable new genu 

 species Protoma Knockeri described by Dr. Baird, and other new 

 forms described by E. A. Smith (Proc. Zool. Soc. l v 7 1, pp. 

 727-739). 



A very valuable donation was received from .Mr. G. I". A 

 between the years 1870-1886. It included about 1 L90 specimens, 

 chiefly from Australia, among them being the types of 240 

 species chiefly described by himself in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society. The collection included chiefly marine shells, 

 his land shells having subsequently been bequeathed to the 

 Newcastle Museum. 



Between the years 1870 and L886 Mr. Julius Brenchlej 

 presented 1887 specimens of land, fresh water, and marine ahells 

 collected during the cruise of 1 1. Ms. Curafoa among the South 

 Sea Islands. The collection was valuable on account of the 

 exactitude of the localities attached to the specimens. 



