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less, like Professor Prince, felt that the usefulness of this catalogue " would be vastly- 

 increased, by the addition of an index."i The importance of this volume to the zoolo- 

 gist is evident and its interest to the geologist dealing with the Pleistocene is almost 

 equally great. The student of the Pleistocene fossils of eastern Canada and the New 

 England States finds it desirable to refer constantly to this valuable work. The omis- 

 sion from it of an index however, has made such reference difficult and wasteful of 

 time and caused the student of both the Pleistocene and Recent S'hells to make much 

 less use of the catalogue than its value warrants. The present index to the species 

 of this catalogue, which number more than 1,000, is intended to remove this bar to 

 frequent and easy reference to the wealth of information concerning the Atlantic 

 coast faunas of Canada which was brought together by Dr. Whiteaves. 



In a paper having the object and scope of the present one, it does not appear desir- 

 able to attempt any revision of the nomenclature. The nomenclature adopted by 

 Whiteaves has therefore been followed throughout and where later authors >have used 

 names different from those accepted by Whiteaves for the same forms cross references 

 to the latter have been used. All of the names which appear in the synonomy of the 

 Whiteaves' catalogue Avill be found in the general index. 



Bathymetric Tables.' 



sNoTE. — The Maximum and minimum depth recorded for each species is indicated in the first column. 

 The bathymetric range is also indicated graphically by checking each species in each of the columns in 

 which its range falls, thus facilitating rapid comparative examination of the recorded data. Sometimes 

 the information regarding bathymetric range is of an approximate or comparative nature and in such cases 

 some one of the following symbols has been used for expressing range not recorded in Hnear units. 



o — Low water mark. 

 D.W. — Deep water. 

 F. — Free swimming. 

 I.T.— Intertidal. 

 P. — Parasitic. 



S.W. — Shallow water. 



<3 — Depths less than 3 fathoms. 



>100 — depths greater than 100 fathoms. 



10 — Depth in fathoms. 



1 Ottawa Naturalist, vol. 15, 1912, p. 171. 



