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this year and partly in 1892. The specimens were collected by 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, chief engineer of H.M.S. Penguin, and included 

 many new marine and terrestrial forms. An account of the 

 latter by E. A. Smith was published in the Proc. Malac. Soc, 

 vol. i., pp. 84-99. 



Many types of species were also added to the collection this 

 year, including 27 from the collection of A. E. Craven, 10 from 

 Borneo, presented by A. Everett, Esq., 11 from the collection of 

 the late Sir David Barclay, including species of Scalaria, Ovulum, 

 Cijclostoma, Helix and Ostrea, also Helix hero, H. serope and 

 H iantlie from New Guinea. 



Another very important acquisition consisted of 1052 land 

 shells chiefly from Japan, China and India. This series formed 

 part of the collection of Dr. Hungerford, which was acquired by 

 Mr. G. B. Sowerby, from whom the Museum purchased the 

 specimens. A large proportion of them included species identified 

 by Dr. O. von Mollendorff and are practically co-types of these 

 forms. 



1892. 



In 1844 and 1847, in the reports of the British Association, 

 Dr. W. B. Carpenter wrote his well-known " Report on the 

 Microscopic Structure of Shells." The preparations, 671 in 

 number, described and figured in that work, were presented by 

 his son the late P. H. Carpenter. 



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

 series of Mollusca from St. Helena, consisting of 169 marine 

 and 263 terrestrial forms. The latter, which included several 

 new species, were reported on by E. A. Smith in the Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1892, pp. 258-270. (See 1889.) 



Amongst the various types acquired may be mentioned 



(1) sixteen species of Oliva from the collection of Miss Steere 

 and described by Lovell Reeve in the " Conchologia Iconica " ; 



(2) Voluta circheri and V. Icreusleroe, Angas, presented by Surgeon 

 Colonel Archer ; (3) some species of Ampullaria, Planorbis and 

 Spliserium from the Victoria Nyanza ; (4) twenty-seven new 

 species of land shells from North Borneo and the types of Helix 

 (Geotroclius) liedleyi, Smith, and Spondylus poivelli, Smith. 



