A revision of the types of the marine shells of the Chevert Expedition
Abstract
The largest collection yet made of the marine mollusca of tropical Queensland, is that taken under the direction of Sir William Macleay, in 1875, by the staff of the "Chevert," and now in the Macleay Museum, Sydney. This collection was partly described by Mr. J. Brazier in the earlier volumes of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.
Later writers, who have studied the marine mollusca of this region, have failed to identify species therein described, and have complained that the account given is inadequate for recognition. In fairness to the Sydney Conchologist, it should be remembered that a debased style, dispensing with figures or dimensions in diagnoses, introduced by the Brothers Adams, then prevailed in London, and naturally lowered the level of work abroad.
It has resulted that recent Monographs include the names of the "Chevert" shells among the doubtful or unknown species. Where these species have been again taken, they have in several caseS been described and named anew....
Drillia mastersi, Brazier....
