Mollusca, 717 



1887. 



The first instalments of the valuable collections of marine 

 Mollusca obtained by the "Challenger" Expedition 

 were added to the collection between this pear ., 

 They included 4923 specimens, described to the Repoi 

 Zoological Collections by the Rev. R. Boog Wa1 on, W. E. 

 Hoyle, E.A.Smith and others. A large number oi 

 remarkable species were described to these Reports, many of them 

 being of much interest, having been dredged al great deptl 

 at localities seldom visited. 



1887. 



567 marine and estuary shells from the Mergui Archipelago 

 were also acquired at this time. They were collected bi I 1 

 John Anderson and were worked out and described by Prof. E. 

 von Martens in the Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxi., pp. L55- 219. 



1888. 



An important acquisition this year consisted of 555 ma 

 shells from Aden, collected and presented by M aji »r •' . W. Yen wary, 

 R.A. The collection was described by E. A. Smith in the Proc 



Zool. Soc, 1891, pp. 390-436. 



Also worthy of mention are (1) a series of 133 land shells 

 from Barbados, collected and presented by Colonel II. W. 

 Feilden, and (2) 463 marine shells from European Seas, prin- 

 cipally from the coast of Norway, including man) wry in - - 

 ing forms difficult to acquire ; obtained by purchase. 



1889. 



This year Capt. W. H. Turton, R.E., presented a collection 



of 2558 marine shells from St. Helena, including 270 

 which about one hundred were new to science. The Lmpoi 

 of this acquisition will be understood from the facl that only 

 forty or fifty species had previously been recorded from tin- 

 island. An account of it was published by E. A. Smith in the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1890, pp. 247-3 17. 



1891. 



A very valuable collection of 14 11 shells from N. W. Aim i 

 China, etc., was presented by the Lord* of the Admiralty, partly 



