Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India Including South Arabia Baluchistan Afghanistan Kashmir Nepal Murmah Pegu Tenasserim Malay Peninsul Ceylon and Other Islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica

In spite of the great facilities for the study of Natural History and the Biological courses open to young men at the present day it is surprising there are so few Conchologists and Malacologists PART XI.240 LAND AND FRESHWATER in India now compared with the number in the early fifties and sixties of the last century. [...] The Geological Survey of India was conspicuous at that time for the number of Assistants including its first Director Thomas Oldham who beyond their own special work were collectors of and several of them writers on the Vertbrates and Invertebrates as the pages of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal show. [...] The generative organs were in the stage of rest although the animals were taken in July at the height of the rains and I had to cut up four specimens before I could get them out in a satifactory state. [...] vesicula of Mussoorie but there is a difference in the higher spire and the vi ind of the whorls in the Murree shell. [...] The animal is pale ochre throughout only on the wall of the bronchial chamber were faint spots to be seen ; it is also spotted sparsely with white so is the border of the rectum kidney and liver-lobes (fig.