Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London [Journal of Molluscan Studies] Vol. 1-14, 16-49 [and] Supplement 1-12

Description:

The journal began under the title Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, and from Vol. 42 onwards changed to Journal of Molluscan Studies. Includes Indexes to vols 1-15 (bound in a separate volume); also with Vol. 50 (part 1) bound in the final volume. A good 92-year run, lacking only Vol. 15.Some of the lithographic plates in the early volumes by G.B. Sowerby (at least one hand-coloured), J. Green and others.

Condition

49 vols + 12 Supplements bound in 46, 8vo, mixed bindings: 38 in half leather, some vols scuffed/worn, with loss to foot of one spine, 5 vols with joints split, some boards detached, 1 spine loose, Vol. I front inner hinge broken; 8 vols in later green buckram. Withdrawn from an institutional library with ink stamps. Bound in with Vol. I are several contemporary mansuscript letters to Edgar A. Smith (1847-1916), British malacologist and assistant keeper of Zoology in the British Museum between 1867 and 1913. One letter from American malacologist, Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862-1957) of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, dated May 25th 1894, is in response to an editorial protest on p. 11 of Vol. I, concerning right of priority of description of a species, described and illustrated there by Smith. A type specimen had been left with Pilsbry by Smith on a visit to the United States while this paper was in press and Pilsbury had included the species in one of his publications before Smith's description had been published! He is not named, but referred to as, 'a well-known conchologist'.