Booklet, Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca

Maker
Hutton, Frederick Wollaston
Colonial Museum
Geological Survey Department
Hughes, James
Production date
1880

Object detail

Brief Description
Booklet entitled: Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca published by the Geological Survey Department and dated 1880.

A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft molluscs and payola of New Zealand and the adjacent islands. Contains a bibliography, a list of abbreviations and synopsis of the multiple families of mollusc.

On reverse is inserted a section from the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, Volume XXXIV entitled: List of the Species described in F W Hutton's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca, with the corresponding names used at the present time.

Includes a loose sheet on the inside front cover entitled: With the compliments of the Government Printer Wellington New Zealand.

Printed at the office of James Hughes, Wellington.
Production date
1880
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Printed black ink on paper. Soft cover.
Measurements
Height x Width: 250 x 155mm
Subject period
Subject date
1880
Credit line
gifted by Garth Cockerill
Other number(s)
594.09931 Hut, 10,523, 32808

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