To Classify Shellfish
p. 52 · Read in the full issue
PRACTICALLY everyone in the Islands has at one time collected shells, if only with the object of sending them away to friends oversea. Others have given up in despair of ever being able to identify and classify their finds. It is to these latter that Mr. A. W. B.
Powell’s “Shellfish of New Zealand” (Unity Press Ltd., Auckland) will ap peal.
Mr. Powell has written in a manner which the amateur can readily under stand. Illustrations, of prime importance in any work dealing with such minute ly differing objects as shell specimens, are in eighteen excellent plates which alone are worth the 5/- asked for the book.
The greater number of species listed and described are also common to most Islands Groups.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Taylor sailed from Sydney for Tulagi, 8.5.1., by the last “Malaita”.