2l8 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



As Dr. Mighels had gathered his band of collectors around him 

 in the forties, so Morse and Fuller had several earnest collectors 

 associated with them in the early sixties; of these Rev. E. C. 

 Bolles, a Universalist minister of Portland, now professor in 

 Tufts College, and ]\Iajor John M. Gould of that city, did much 

 collecting in Cumberland and Oxford counties. While neither 

 Gould nor Bolles published anything on ]\Iaine mollusca, they 

 both furnished data and material and aided Professor Morse in 

 the preparation of his "Pulmonifera of Maine," as he acknowl- 

 edges in the preface to and throughout that work. 



In 1861 Charles B. Fuller of Portland, who was attached to 

 the State Scientific Survey, under the directorship of Ezekiel 

 Holmes, and who was associated with A. S. Packard, Jr., in his 

 trip to the eastern ]\Iaine coast, dredged and collected the off- 

 shore forms along the coast from Eastport to Casco Bay and 

 the land species on the islands of that bay. The results of this 

 expedition were embodied in his "Report on Marine Zoology," 

 and published in the secretary of agriculture's report for 1862, 

 pp. 129 to 133. 



In 1864 Prof. Edw. S. Morse published a finely illustrated 

 catalogue of the land and fresh-water species of the State, with 

 full descriptions and notes on distribution. 



To Prof. Addison E. Verrill, a native of Maine, now director 

 of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, we are 

 indebted for much of our knowledge of the deep-sea forms. 

 He spent seven summers, from 1865 to 1872, at Eastport and 

 was attached to the government dredging expedition of 1873. 

 The results of his work on the Maine molluscan fauna have 

 appeared in various scientific publications and government 

 reports. His "Explorations of Casco Bay" was published in 

 the U. S. Fish Commissioner's Report for 1874, and in 1882 a 

 complete list of marine species added to the fauna of the New 

 England region during the past ten years, in Trans. Conn. 

 Academy Arts and Sciences, vol. 5. pp. 447 to 588. 



The first list of ]\Iaine shells ever published was that of Dr. 

 Charles T. Jackson, State Geologist, which appeared in an 

 appendix to his first report on the Geology of Maine, Augusta, 

 1837. In this list Dr. Jackson enumerates 38 marine, 9 fresh- 

 water and 3 land species, or a total of 50 species. Dr. Mighels' 



