| Description | Letter from the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, dated 19 June [enclosed with LAdd/1602] advising that 'Very little is known of the mollusks of Pitcairn and what there is is widely scattered.' He notes that some research has been done on the mollusks of French Polynesia, and he himself plans to do some research on mollusks in southeasten Polynesia. |