Henry Suter - Bibliography

Bibliography

Charles Hedley described Henry Suter's work as: "... excellent descriptions of small land-shells, illustrated with unusually clear and detailed drawings ..." with "... the jaws and radula of various minute snails. This very difficult work was beautifully done."

Suter's writings were largely modeled on those of his distinguished predecessor, Captain Hutton. It was indeed fortunate that the work of the one should have succeeded that of the other without the intervention of what the geologists describe as an nonconformity. Perhaps at no time did Suter quite realize the undiscovered residue of the fauna on which he worked.

His magnum opus was the Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca published in 1913-1915. This work was approached by a whole quarter-century of study and labour and covers 1,079 species.

Critical review of this Manual evaluated it as "an extraordinary advance" in conchology of New Zealand. Also the nomenclature of the Manual raised to a modern standard of its age. Review in Nature (1916) evaluated illustrations like this: "The illustrations reach a high level of excellence, and the figures generally are clear, well drawn, and adequate in detail." Augustus Hamilton (1854–1913; U.K.) planned the Manual',' however, and obtained a grant from the Government to cover the costs of its production.

After the Manual was completed, Suter was engaged by the Geological Survey to describe collections of Tertiary mollusks gathered by the Department. On this he was busy for the remainder of his life, and the results are embodied in three Palaeontological Bulletins of the Geological Survey.

• (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington, 1120 pp.
• (1913). "Descriptions of three new species of land shells from New Zealand". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 10: 333-334.
• (1915). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Atlas of plates. John Mackay, Government printer, Wellington. (72 plates with descriptions)
• (1915). Alphabetical hand-list of New Zealand Tertiary Mollusca

Articles by Henry Suter published in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute:

• (1889) "Descriptions of New Species of New Zealand Land and Fresh-water Shells". 22
• (1890) "Miscellaneous Communications on New Zealand Land and Fresh-water Molluscs". 23
• (1891) "Contributions to the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand". 24
• (1891) "List of the Introduced Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of New Zealand". 24
• (1891) "List of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca doubtful for New Zealand or not inhabiting it". 24
• (1891) "Miscellaneous Communications on New Zealand Land and Fresh-water Mollusca". 24
• (1891) "On the Dentition of some New Zealand Land and Fresh-water Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species". 24
• (1892) "Notes on New Zealand Insects". 25
• (1892) "Contributions to the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand". 25
• (1893) "Check-list of the New Zealand Land and Freshwater Mollusca". 26
• (1893) "Further Contributions to the Knowledge of the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand, with Descriptions of Eight new Species". 26
• (1895) "Further Contributions to the Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand". 28
• (1898) "New Zealand Polyplacophora: Keys to Genera and Species". 31
• (1898) "List of New Zealand Mollusca described in Foreign Publications since 1890". 31
• (1900) "Further Contributions to the Geographical Distribution of the New Zealand Non-marine Mollusca". 33
• (1901) "On the Land Mollusca of Little Barrier Island". 34
• (1901) "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". 34
• (1904) "Report on the Mollusca collected by Messrs. Keith Lucas and G. L. Hodgkin in Six Lakes of New Zealand". 37
• (1904) "The First-discovered New Zealand Gundlachia". 37
• (1904) "Revision of the New Zealand Species of the Genus Potamopyrgus, with Description of a New Species". 37
• (1904) "Revision of the New Zealand Species of the Genus Isidora, with Description of a New Subspecies". 37
• (1905) "Notes on New Zealand Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies". 38
• (1905) "Genus Isidora: Correction of Article XVI. in Last Year's Transactions (Volume XXXVII)". 38
• (1905) "On Flabellum rugulosum, Tenison-Woods.". 38
• (1906) "Results of Dredging in Hauraki Gulf; with Descriptions of Seven New Species". 39
• (1906) "Notes on, and Additions to, the New Zealand Molluscan Fauna". 39
• (1907) "A New Placostylus from New Zealand". 40
• (1907) "Descriptions of New Species of New Zealand Mollusca". 40
• (1909) "List of Recent Shells found Fossil in New Zealand". 42
• (1912) "New Species of Tertiary Mollusca". 45
• (1916) "On the Origin of a New Species by Isolation". 49
• (1919) "Description of a New Species of the Family Cerithiidae". 51