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20 WHERE PROCURED. 
suspect that both these species, D. striolatum and 
D. pretiosum, are only very slight varieties of the 
old Linnzan species, Dentalium entalis (Entalis 
vulgaris). 
‘The habitats of the three species are very 
different; but notwithstanding this, in the ab- 
sence’ of distinct specific characters, I should 
hesitate very much making distinct species of 
them. However that may be, the history of 
the specimens brought by Mr. Lord is very 
interesting; and these few observations must 
be considered only as introductory to the very 
instructive notes drawn up by that gentleman, a 
perusal of which will prove the best apology for 
these brief preliminary remarks.’ 
The money-shells are procured upon the north 
end of Vancouver Island; also in the bays and 
inlets along the mainland coast north of latitude 
of 49° to Sitka; and is common likewise round 
Queen Charlotte's Island. The genus has an 
enormous geographical range; and it is, per- 
haps, strange that the shells from North-west 
America, from California, and those obtained on 
our own coast, when placed side by side, scarcely 
present any material specific differences. 
When a chief dies, of course, according to the 
redskin creed, he will require in the next world— 
