THE BAHAMA ISLANDS 27 



Station IT. — Fossils from quarry at back of hospital grounds, Nassau, 

 New Providence. At the base of the section is a hard white rock from which 

 was obtained — 



Margaritiphora radiata Leach (Marine). Above this was a somewhat brown- 

 ish, poorly cemented, sandy layer two or three feet thick, containing an extinct 

 land shell, Cerion agassizii Dall. Above the sandy layer there is a hard white rock, 

 containing no fossils. 



Station 18. — Fossils from the narrow part of Eleuthera Island opposite 

 Savanna Sound from about five feet above sea level. The rock appeared to 



be a beach formation. 



Cerion (near agassizii Dall) fragments. 



Mytilus exustus Linne. 



Phacoides (Here) pensylvanicus Linne. 



Phacoides {Callucina) radians Conrad. 



Phacoides (Cavilucina) trisulcatus Conrad. 



Bulla striata Briiguiere. 



Natica canrena Lamarck. 



Acmwa punctulata Gmelin. 



Balanus sp. fragments. 



Station 19. — Fossils from geolian rocks along east side Rum Cay. 



Cerion lentiginosum Maynard. 



Cepolis varians Menke. 



Cepolis agassizii new species, near varians. Menke. 



Cepolis pharcida new species, near duclosiana Ferussac. 



Helicina rawsoni Pfeiffer (Watlings Id.). 



Barbatia sp. 



Chama sp. indct.. worn. 



Tectarius {muricatus'i L.) worn shell. 



Livona pica Linne. 



Claw of a small crab. 



Station 20. — Fine, rather hard, gravelly sand rock, with included worn 



calcareous peljl)les.. from about one mile north of Pigeon Hill, Eleuthera 



Island, and about one mile inland. 



Mytilus exustus Linne. 

 Lampusia sp. (fragment). 

 Chlorostoma sp. (young shell). 



Station '^1. — Bluff of Eleuthera Island about a mile north of Bluff 

 settlement and six feet above sea level. Above the rock containing these 

 fossils is a stratum of rock of geolian origin. The matrix of the fossils is a 

 soft, fine, calcareous sand rock. 



Glycymeris americana Defrance. 



Phacoides {Here) pensylvanicus Linne. 



Cerithium floridanum Morch. 



