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Crucibulum striatum (Say.) H. & A. Ad. 
Panopea sp? (Fragmentary.) 
Mesodesma Jauresi Joan. 
Venus mercenaria Linné. 
Venericardia borealis (Conr.) Carp. 
Astarte undata Gould. 
Arca (Scapharca) transversa Ad. 
Modiola sp? (Fragmentary.) 
Ostrea Virginiana (Lister.) Fav. 
CRrusTACEA. ANNELIDA. BrYOZOA. PORIFERA. 
Balanus eburneus Gould. 
Balanus porcatus Costa. (Separate pieces only.) 
Serpula (Hydroides) dianthus Ver. (Many specimens 
covered with a bryozodn—Lscharina Isabelliana 
D’ Orb?) 
Cliona sulphurea (Desor.) Ver. (Represented by bor- 
ings, especially in the shells of Ostrea and Arca. 
{xcept in the case of Panopxa and Mesodesma this list adds 
nothing new to the previously published fauna of the shell bed, 
but continuous records of collections from the locality are of 
value and doubtless occasional new species will turn up when- 
ever the material in the bed is carefully examined. 
The most interesting and unexpected find was a fragment of 
silicified wood in the talus near the foot of the bluff, about a 
quarter of a mile east of the lighthouse. A superficial exami- 
nation in the field led me to think that it must be a piece of 
palm wood. Subsequently sections were prepared for micro- 
scopic examination, but the tissues were found to be too im- 
perfectly preserved for specific determination. They were sub- 
mitted to Dr. C. C. Curtis, of Columbia College, and to Dr. F. 
H. Knowlton, of the United States Geological Survey. Dr. 
Curtis recognized the endogenous structure, without, however, 
deciding it to be palm wood. Dr. Knowlton considered it un- 
doubtedly to represent a palm. I was unable to satisfy myself 
that it was either the same as or different from certain species 
of Palmoxylon * previously described. The only ones reported 
from the Eastern United States, however, were found in the 
* Palmoxylon Schenk, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. III. (1882) 486. A generic term used to 
designate fossil palm wood. 
