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  MARINE 
  MOLLUSCA 
  DESCRIBED 
  BY 
  P. 
  P. 
  CARPENTER 
  

  

  RcdpatJi 
  Muscimi, 
  McGill 
  University. 
  — 
  McGill 
  College 
  (University) 
  ac- 
  

   cepted 
  the 
  Carpenter 
  collection 
  October 
  26, 
  1867, 
  on 
  condition 
  that 
  Carpenter 
  

   arrange 
  the 
  material, 
  and 
  this 
  he 
  worked 
  on 
  nntil 
  his 
  death 
  in 
  1877. 
  He 
  had 
  taken 
  

   iZ 
  years 
  to 
  form 
  the 
  collection, 
  and 
  its 
  monetary 
  valne 
  had 
  been 
  estimated 
  by 
  

   Sowerl)y 
  as 
  1000 
  ponnds. 
  Although 
  it 
  contained 
  few 
  expensive 
  shells 
  it 
  was 
  val- 
  

   uable 
  because 
  so 
  many 
  specimens 
  had 
  been 
  compared 
  with 
  types. 
  It 
  is 
  important 
  

   to 
  students 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  Coast 
  fauna 
  in 
  ])articular 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  

   undisturbed 
  types 
  of 
  species 
  described 
  by 
  Carpenter. 
  Present-day 
  collections 
  con- 
  

   tain 
  greater 
  numbers 
  of 
  shells, 
  better 
  preserved, 
  and 
  more 
  carefully 
  collected, 
  but 
  

   the 
  importance 
  of 
  the 
  Carpenter 
  collection 
  is 
  its 
  pertinence 
  to 
  taxonomy. 
  It 
  con- 
  

   tains 
  duplicate 
  shells 
  from 
  original 
  collection 
  of 
  species, 
  such 
  as 
  those 
  described 
  

   by 
  Adams 
  from 
  Japan 
  (Kuroda 
  and 
  Habe, 
  1954) 
  which 
  have 
  never 
  been 
  illus- 
  

   trated 
  and 
  which 
  from 
  lack 
  of 
  original 
  material 
  are 
  obscurely 
  known 
  today. 
  The 
  

   Redpath 
  Museum 
  molluscan 
  stores 
  have 
  been 
  discussed 
  briefly 
  elsewhere 
  

   (Palmer, 
  1945. 
  p. 
  97-102; 
  Cleghorn, 
  1950. 
  p. 
  70). 
  

  

  COLLECTORS 
  OF 
  WEST 
  COAST 
  SPECIES 
  

   DESCRIBED 
  BY 
  CARPENTER 
  

  

  Philip 
  Carpenter 
  was 
  never 
  on 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  of 
  North 
  America 
  and 
  did 
  

   not 
  collect 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  shells 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  he 
  described. 
  Such 
  published 
  statements 
  

   as 
  that 
  of 
  Kelsey 
  (1902, 
  p. 
  144) 
  in 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  Scrridens 
  ohlongiis 
  Cpr. 
  in 
  which 
  

   he 
  quoted 
  Dall 
  as 
  saying, 
  "the 
  single 
  valve 
  found 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Carpenter 
  at 
  San 
  Diego, 
  

   in 
  1866, 
  was 
  on 
  record." 
  are 
  misleading. 
  Kelsev 
  nu'sunderstood 
  words 
  of 
  Dall 
  in 
  

   regard 
  to 
  the 
  record. 
  Collections 
  referred 
  to 
  as 
  Carpenter 
  Collections 
  have 
  been 
  

   inferred 
  by 
  some 
  persons 
  unfamiliar 
  witli 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  West 
  Coast 
  associations 
  

   to 
  be 
  material 
  collected 
  by 
  Carpenter. 
  Such 
  a 
  denotation 
  in 
  association 
  with 
  col- 
  

   lections 
  may 
  indicate 
  that 
  either 
  the 
  material 
  was 
  of 
  Carpenter's 
  transactions 
  or 
  

   identification. 
  

  

  Most 
  of 
  the 
  shells 
  from 
  the 
  area 
  of 
  this 
  report, 
  from 
  which 
  Carpenter 
  segre- 
  

   gated 
  and 
  described 
  new 
  species, 
  were 
  obtained 
  through 
  tlie 
  Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion 
  and/or 
  the 
  California 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  The 
  collectors 
  of 
  such 
  material 
  

   were 
  listed 
  by 
  Carpenter 
  (18641), 
  p. 
  579). 
  Those 
  pertinent 
  to 
  this 
  monograph 
  

   are 
  briefly 
  given 
  below 
  : 
  

  

  (1) 
  "James 
  G. 
  Swan, 
  from 
  Port 
  Townsend. 
  Cape 
  Flattery, 
  Neeah 
  Isic] 
  Bay, 
  

   and 
  the 
  neighboring 
  shores 
  of 
  Vancouver 
  ; 
  at 
  intervals, 
  during 
  many 
  years." 
  

   (Also, 
  Carpenter, 
  1864b. 
  p. 
  606) 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Swan, 
  as 
  Indian 
  teacher 
  at 
  Neah 
  Bay, 
  N.W\T., 
  trained 
  the 
  children 
  to 
  

   gather 
  shells. 
  Appropriate 
  labels 
  printed 
  by 
  the 
  .Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  may 
  be 
  

   found 
  in 
  the 
  collections 
  distributed 
  Ijv 
  that 
  institution 
  following 
  the 
  identification 
  

   of 
  the 
  species 
  by 
  Carpenter. 
  These 
  labels 
  read. 
  '"Collected 
  by 
  the 
  Indian 
  children 
  

   at 
  Neeah 
  Bay 
  {sic] 
  W. 
  T. 
  and 
  Vancouver 
  by 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  G. 
  Swan 
  (Teacher)." 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  new 
  species 
  collected 
  by 
  Swan 
  were 
  described 
  by 
  Carpenter 
  

   (1864d, 
  p. 
  423-429; 
  1865a. 
  p. 
  28-32). 
  See'text 
  for 
  discussion 
  of 
  each. 
  Additional 
  

  

  