OBSERVATIONS ON LIVING GASTEROPODS 

 OF NEW ENGLAND 



By Edward S. Morse 



In 1919 I published my " Observations on Living Lamellibranchs 

 of New England,' ' in the "Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History," (Vol. XXXV, No. 5). Forty-eight species were described 

 and figured, the protoconchs of nineteen species were also given and a 

 number of the expanded animals were portrayed for the first time. 

 Other species that had been very inadequately figured were drawn; 

 among these were Turtonia minuta, Liocardiutn mortoni. Gemma 

 gemma, Cumingia tellinoides, Mactra lateralis, Ceronia arclica and 

 Pholas truncata; still other species had been figured by Forbes and 

 Hanley but, as stated in my "Lamellibranchs," on so small a scale and 

 so imperfectly drawn as to be of little value. Liocardium mortoni had 

 also been figured but it bore no resemblance to the expanded animal. 

 At this point I must call attention to the exquisite drawings in color 

 by Mr. J. Henry Blake, of twenty-three species of New England 

 mollusks made to illustrate the beautiful collection of New England 

 shells brought together by Mr. C. W. Johnson, Custodian of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, and exhibited in its Museum. 

 Mr. Dwight Blaney has made a number of drawings with notes and 

 descriptions of mollusca dredged in Frenchman's Bay, Maine. These 

 drawings are very fine and many of them are of species I have not 

 seen alive. It is hoped that he will prepare this material for pub- 

 lication. 



It should have been stated in my "Lamellibranchs" as an excuse 

 for the imperfection of many figures and paucity of description that 



