SHELLS AT THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5567, 16 May 1896, Page 6

SHELLS AT THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS.

Mr E. Lukin, of sort Nelson, who has a fine private museum illustrative of native fauna and their habits, modes of life, warfare and former means of subsistence of the Maoris, is (says the Southlmid Neius) taking the round trip of the Southern Islands and the Sounds, in the Hinemoa — gathering additions to the Nelson Public Museum, of which he is assistant curator, as he goes. Speaking to a representative of the journal quoted, at the Bluff on Wednesday, Mr Lilian expressed himself as disappointed in regard to the leading object of his . trip, "which was to seek for new varieties of land shells. He says: "Although I examined the most likely spots where land shells are likely to exist, I found no traces of them whatever. The marine shells of the island are very poorly represented indeed. All. the islands contain a number of limpets (on the Auckland Islands are to be found small pawa differing from the New Zealand species), mussels and a few other kinds. At Port Ross is a> fine bed of cockles, and at Musgrave Inlet is also to be found/ a splendid bed of pipis right opposite the depot. This information may prove of service to future, visitants of the islands, whether castaways or tourists." -