THE 
JOURNAL 
UP 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
AND 
EASTERN ASI A. 
A FEW REMARKS ON CONCHOLOGY AND MALA€HOLOGY 
Comprising brief Notices of some of ike more remarkable 
“ Tesiacea” in Singapoi'e and its neighbourhood ; with an 
appended Catalogue of Singapore Shells arranged in con- 
formity with “ Lamarck’s SystemN 
By Williaml Traill, M. X). 
Is publishing facts respecting the habits and peculiarities of the 
Mollusca, it is difficult to avoid going over old ground, as there 
has heen, of late years, much additional information contributed, 
by voyagers and travellers; among whom none excel the French 
Naturalists in the patience and minuteness of their anatomical inves¬ 
tigations. The following remarks therefore, are not brought for¬ 
ward as new, though they may have their use, as affording addi¬ 
tional testimony to facts or theories already advanced by others. 
I am far from considering the annexed catalogue, a complete list 
of the shells of Singapore; they are only such as have hitherto fallen 
under my personal observation. My conchological researches have 
been, for the most part, solitary, and it is natural to suppose that the 
combined efforts of several individuals in a pursuit of this nature 
would have produced more accurate and satisfactory results. It is 
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