JOURNAL 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. 9 JANUARY 4, 19 19 No. i 



PALEONTOLOGY. — On some Tertiary fossils from the Pribilof 

 Islands.'^ Wiluam H. Dall, U. vS. National Museum. 



In 1899 I enumerated the fossils found at Black Bluff, St. Paul 

 Island, Bering Sea, Alaska.- They occur at this place in frag- 

 ments of sedimentary rock torn from the ocean bed and up- 

 heaved with their enclosing lava above the sea level. Mr. G. 

 Dallas Hanna, of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, who has been 

 stationed on the island for a number of years, reports that the 

 Black Bluff locality is now entirely exhausted of its fossils. 

 However, this loss is more than made up for by the discovery 

 of two new localities, one on St. Paul and one on St. George 

 Island. Curiously enough the locality on each island is locally 

 known as Tolstoi Point, the Russian word Tolstoi meaning 

 "broad" being used geographically in numberless localities in 

 Alaska. 



The collection is of interest as linking up the age of the strata 

 from which these fragments were derived with the beach deposits 

 at Nome which are referred to the late Pliocene. 



In Mr. Hanna's collection are 47 species of which 44 are 

 mollusks, 31 gastropods and 13 bivalves. 



The St. Paul collection has only seven species, all found on 

 both islands and also found at Black Bluff, so they are possibly 

 of the same age as the Black Bluff series. Of the St. George 



^ Published with the permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 

 2 The Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, part III. Pp. 

 546. Government Printing Office. 1899. 



