The John Murray Expedition 1933-34. Scientific Reports. [Mollusca].

London, The British Museum of Natural history, 1938-1967. Five parts in two. Large 4to (30.3 x 22.9 cm). 368 pp.; 66 text figures, 51 plates. Uniform green buckram with gilt title on the spines. original printed wrappers bound in. = These two volumes contain the complete Mollusca section of the expedition's results, published over a long period of almost 30 years. Although not stated in the titles, this was an expedition to the Indian Ocean, and consisted largely of marine dredgings. The first bound volume contains H. G. Stubbings (1938) Pteropoda (Vol. V, No. 2; 19 pp.); followed by N. B. Eales (1938) A systematical and anatomical account of the Opisthobranchia (Vol. V, No. 4; 46 pp.; 28 text figures, one plate); N. H. Ludbrook (1954) Scaphopoda (Vol. X, No. 2; 30 pp.; one plate); and W. Adam and W. J. Rees (1966) A review of the cephalopod family Sepiidae (Vol. XI, No. 1; 165 pp.; one text figure, 46 plates). The second volume contains J. Knudsen (1967) The Deep-Sea Bivalvia (Vol. XI, No. 3; 108 pp.; 37 text figures, three plates. Knudsen's paper contains a useful historical review of zoological expeditions in the Indian Ocean. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the front free endpaper rectos and wrappers. A very good, rarely seen complete set.