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HalioHs Cracherodii^ Leach, Zool. Misc., 1814, and var. Cali- 

 forniensis, Sbj. 



JI. rufescens, Sby. Bligh Cat., 1822. 

 Lucapina crenulata, Sby, Tank. CataL, 1825. 

 Olivella biplicata^ Sby. Tank. CataL, 1825. 

 Trivia Californiana, Sby. Zool. Journal, 1827. 



Humboldt and Bonpland, though coming no nearer than 

 Acapuico, obtained there in 1804 one species that seems exclu- 

 sively Californian, probably through some northern coaster, viz., 

 Haliotis Californiana, Val., 1838 {non Sby.) = H. rufescens, 



It does not seem that Capt. Beechey's exploration, in 1825— 

 28, obtained anything at Monterey, though many species com- 

 mon there were collected by him elsewhere. 



The first authentic collections made there were those of the 

 late Prof. Nuttall, in 1835, who discovered^ 70 of the more com- 

 mon land and sea Ij^ach shells of California, of which only nine 

 were from Monterey, with some before described. 



About 1838 the '' Venus " with Ad. Du Petit Thouars visited 

 Monterey, and obtained two or three new species, besides several 

 of Nuttall's, which were redescribed by DesHayes and Valen- 

 ciennes as new. 



The surveying ship '* Sulphur," Capt. Belcher, with the emi- 

 nent conchologist Hinds, passed along in 1838-42, but obtained 

 nothing new here, though discovering 21 species elsewhere in Cali- 

 fornia. Reeve, in Conch. Icon., quotes '•'' Fissurella Lincolni, 

 Gray," [G-lypkis aspera, Esch), " Monterey, Belcher." 



Another British surveying ship, the "Pandora," Capt. Kel- 

 lett, followed much the same route in 1849, without obtaining 

 anything new here. 



The same year Col. E. Jewett collected 45 new species in 

 California, and spent a week at Monterey, obtaining there two 

 new ones. Lieut. Green, U. S. N., and Maj. Rich, U. S. A., 

 also visited there, the latter obtaining two out of his three new 

 Californian species at this place, and seven imported species. 



Mr. A. S. Taylor sent four new species from Monterey to the 

 Smithsonian Inst, previous to 1860. 



Tlie botanist Hartweg visited the place about 1855, and ob- 

 tained one new species' of Chiton. 



It thus appears from Carpenter's reports that only 22 species, 

 out of 66 known from Monterey in 1860, Avere discovered there 

 by six collectors. 



At that time 277 species were known as Californian, and it is 

 very likely that others, of which the locality was uncertain or 

 wrongly given, came from Monterey. This error of locality is 



