18 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
The naturalists attached to the British and United States Boundary 
Commissions made large collections of marine shells in Puget Sound 
and on the shores of Vancouver Island. 
Fourteen species, supposed to be new to science, were obtained by 
Mr. J K. Lord, of the British expedition, and were described in the 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (for 1863) by Dr. W. 
Baird, who at the same time, and in the same publication, described two 
other species Leda fossa and Nucula Lyalli which had been dredged in 
Esquimalt Harbour by Dr. Lyall, of H. M. 8. Plumper. 
The shells collected by Dr. Kennerley, naturalist to the American 
Commission, were not described until two years later, the delay being 
in great part due to the death of Dr. Kennerley almost immediately 
after his return from the expedition. Dr. Kennerley’s shells were 
collected principally in Puget Sound, and are catalogued, and the new 
species indicated by Dr. Carpenter in his second report. The new 
species, some 25 in number, were fully described in the Proceedings of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) for 1865. More than 
seventy species were added to the Vancouver fauna from this collection. 
A third very important collection from our waters, examined by 
Dr. Carpenter and fully reported on by him in the “ Supplementary 
report”? above referred to, was made by Mr. (now judge) J. G. Swan 
with the help of Indians at Neeah Bay, and other points on Puget 
Sound, and the neighbouring British Columbian coasts. From this 
* collection about 50 species not noticed by either Lord or Kennerley 
were added to our list, about 20 of these being new to science. 
The species contained in these three collections are arranged in 
systematic order in columns 5, 6 and 7 of the table of species appearing 
on pages 636 to 664 of Carpenter’s 1863 report, and form the ‘“ Van- 
couver” list of thirty years ago. 
The number of species named in this list is as follows : 

In column 6. Lord’s collection, number of names........... 79 
Deductwarieties etc ner TERRE RE ro < 3 
—— 16 
In column 5. Kennerley’s collection, additional names..... sl 
Deduct varieties; ‘symonyms Neues. LR PO 8 
73 
In column. Swan’s collection, additions. ........ 71 
Lesswarieties and SynonymMs LES 20 
— 51 
Totale RE 200 
Dr. Carpenter also quotes from Vancouver Island on other author- 
ity the following species: Glycimeris generosa, Chrysodomus liratus and 
Ischnochiton interstinctus, thus raising the total to 203. 
