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MOLLUSCA 



Amphineura. 

 Scaphopoda. 



I. Chiton used as food and for bait. 



I. Tusk shells (Dentalium) were used 

 as currency in California by the 

 Indians. 



Cephalopoda. 



I. Little known except 

 in fiction. 



1. Sepia "bone" and "cuttle bone" 

 used to feed birds requiring lime. 



2. Dr. J. A. Eiesland cites the use of 



cuttlebone for erasers in Norway 

 about 1870. 



3. "Pounce" as anti-acid (medicine); 



in art work to prevent blotting. 



4. Sepia — for ink. 



5. Squid oil — medicine and as lubricant. 



6. Food and fish bait. Squids, octopi 



and sepia. 



References on Mollusca 



Cooke, A. H. 1895. Mollusca, in Cambridge Natural History, Mac- 



millan Co. 

 Gould, A. H. 1870. Report on Invertebrata of Massachusetts. 2d ed. 



Binney (Mollusca and Tunicata). 



Johnson, M. E., AND Snook, H. J. 1927. Shore Animals of the Pacific 

 Coast. The Macmillan Co., N. Y. 



Simpson, G. B. 1901. Anatomy and Physiology of Polygyra albolabris 

 and Umax maximus, etc. New York State Educational Depart- 

 ment. 



Tressler, D. K. 1923. Marine Products of Commerce, N. Y. 



Verrill, a. E. 1882. Report on the Cephalopods of the Northeastern 

 Coast of America. Report of U. S. Fish Commission for 1879. 

 Government Printing Office. 



