Mollusca, , 1 9 



1893. 



A very important addition to the Museum this year i 

 of 2040 land and fresh-water sheila from the collection of the late 



M.Arthur Morelet of Dijon. At his death the collection • 

 purchased of the executors by Mr. II. Fulton, who Bold to the 

 Museum this valuable series, including the actual fcypi 



species described by M. Morelet. 



The types of 24 species of marine shells from Boml 

 presented at this time by Messrs. A. Abercrombie and J. C. 

 Melvill. They were described by the latter in the Memoirs 

 of the Manchester Philosophical Society, vol. vii.. pp. 51 



The types of eleven species of Drillia, Clathurella, Daphru 

 and Cithara, published in the Proc. Zool. Soc. L893, pp. 187-492, 

 by Mr. G. B. Sowerby were also acquired this year. 



Many types were included in the collections of land shells 

 from Palawan, Balabac, Borneo, New Guinea, A imam. 8 

 Archipelago, etc., acquired this year and described by E. A. Smith, 

 Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1893, vol. xi.. pp. 347-353 ; L894, 

 vol. xiii., pp. 48-60; Journ. Linn. Soc. 1893, vol. xxiv.. pp. ;'» 1 1 - 

 352; The Conchologist, 1893, vol. ii., pp. 108, L30. 



Other acquisitions were : — 



(a) 235 land, fresh-water, and marine shells from various pan- 

 of India, including Scaphula celox, S. deltse, and S. j>!iut<i ; 

 bequeathed by the late H. F. Blanford, Esq. 



(b) 107 land and fresh-water shells from lake- and other 

 localities in Central Africa, presented by H. H. .loin, 

 Esq., C.B. This series was described by E. A. Smith, I 

 Zool. Soc. 1894, pp. 632-641. 



(c) 94 land and fresh-water shells from Nbmuka and I 

 Islands, Tonga group, presented by R. B. Leefe, Esq. 



(d) 146 land and fresh-water shells from Tonkin. Cambodia, 

 Annam, etc., received in exchange, included many species new 

 to the collection. 



(e) 300 marine shells from South Australia, including many 

 novelties to the collection, were obtained by exchange. 



1894. 



A very interesting collection of land shells collected by tin- 

 late A. Everett at the Natuna [slanda was partly obtain* 

 purchase and partly by donation from Mr. Everett. It included 



