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Colonel E. Jewett, who travelled to Panama as a private collec- 

 tor in January 1849, spent ten weeks in that region, visiting the 

 island of Taboga. From there he went to San Francisco, where he 

 spent four months exploring the shore for about 50 miles around the 

 head of the bay. Then he spent a week at Monterey and finally 

 went to Santa Barbara, where he collected along the coast as far 

 south as San Buenaventura [Ventura]. He gathered about 225 spe- 

 cies, which were sent to Dr. Gould for determination. A number of 

 them proved to be new and were described by Gould in the Boston 

 Journal of Natural History. Some of them were figured. Many of 

 these shells have been found in the "Gould Type Collection." 



According to P. P. Carpenter (1864, p. 535), Jewett was a very 

 accurate collector and an unsurpassed field paleontologist. Carpenter 

 mentions that by 1864 the collection was in the possession of Jewett's 

 daughter, Mrs. Boyce of Utica, New York. In 1866 Carpenter (p. 

 278) says that the Recent mollusks "have become the property of a 

 college in New York State." The college did not survive and the 

 shells were dispersed. K. Van Winkle Palmer (1958, p. 18) says 

 that "most of the shells are now in the United States National 

 Museum, Peter Redpath Museum at McGill University, Montreal, 

 Cornell University, or are lost." 



Major William Rich had been on the United States Exploring 

 Expedition and was not a novice as a collector of shells. During 

 the war he was able to make a collection of some 130 species, all 

 with good locality data, which were sent to Gould and, again, some 

 proved to be new to science. Carpenter (1864, p. 540) says that 

 Rich collected specimens in good condition. He visited San Fran- 

 cisco, Monterey, San Diego, and San Pedro in California. In Mexico, 

 he collected at La Paz, San Jose, and Mazatlan. In 1863 his collec- 

 tion was in his home in Washington, D.C., opposite the British 

 Legation, destined, in Carpenter's words, "for one of the public 

 museums in the neighborhood." Judging from the number of Rich's 

 lots in the U.S. National Museum, it is probable that the collection 

 was presented to that institution. 



Lt. Thomas P. Green of the United States Navy had collections 

 which covered about the same area as the two above. It was a 

 credit to Gould's reputation that each of these naturalists chose him 

 to identify their collections and to describe the new species. While 

 many of these shells were located in the "Gould Type Collection" 

 from the New York State Museum, now on permanent loan at the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, over 20 of the types have not 

 been found. Gould must have had most of them in 1856 since, 

 according to P. P. Carpenter (1856 [1857] Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 p. 198), "Dr. Gould sent over the whole of his collections from the 



