712 Zoology. 



species were described by Dr. Baird in an Appendix to Mr. 

 Brenchley's book, giving an account of the cruise. 



1871. 



Mr. Harper Pease in 1871-1876 presented 485 Mollusca 

 from the Hawaiian Islands and other islands in the Pacific, 

 some of importance as being co-types of species described by 

 himself. 



A collection of 490 land and fresh-water shells from India 

 was this year acquired by purchase from Mr. Damon, who obtained 

 it from Dr. Ferdinand Stoliczka, the author of several excellent 

 treatises and papers on Indian Mollusca, both recent and fossil. 

 It included many rarities described by Benson, Blanford, etc. 



1873. 



In 1872, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 vol. ix. pp. 262-4, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys gave a list of Mollusca 

 from St. Helena. The specimens (nearly 200 in number) upon 

 which this list was based were presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. J. C. Melliss, by whom they were collected, and who also 

 gave some account of them in his work "St. Helena," published 

 in 1875. 



In this year Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys presented a most valuable 

 collection of 640 Mollusca dredged by Capt. H. C. St. John at 

 Japan. The specimens were most carefully collected and 

 preserved, and accompanied by their exact stations and depths. 

 A portion of the collection was described by E. A. Smith in the 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1875, vol. xv., 

 pp. 414-427, vol. xvi., pp. 103-115, but many novelties still 

 remain to be worked out. 



1874. 



During this year Dr. J. E. Gray presented his private 

 collection of shells, with instructions that it was not to be 

 registered entirely, but that such specimens were to be selected 

 from time to time as might be required, the rest to be placed 

 with the duplicates. The collection consisted of about twelve 

 thousand specimens, which were not, however, remarkable for 

 their beauty or rarity. There are, however, a number of types 

 in it which are valuable, such as those figured from " Gray Cab.' 



