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1861. Meek, F. B. — " Descriptions of New Cretaceous Fossils collected by the 

 North-West Boundary Commission on Vancouver and Sucia Island. Proceedings of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. XIlI., pp. 314-318. 



Seven species are described in this article, four from Comox (or Koomooks, as 

 Mr. Meek writes it,) one from Nanaimo and two from the Sacia Islands, but one of 

 these, Baculites occideniali.fj was described in Mr. Meek's firstpaper under another name. 



1864. Gabb, W. 1/.— Palaeontology of California, Vol. I. 



Contains descriptions and figures of Hamites Vancouverensis and Pecten Traskit, 

 from Nanaimo. 



1869. Gabb, W. ilf.— Paleontology of California, Vol. II. 



Three new species of Lamellibranchiate bivalves from Nanaimo are described 

 and figured in this volume. 



1876. Meek, F. B. — ' Descriptions and Illustrations of Fossils from Vancouver 

 and Sucia Islands and other No'th- Western Localities." Bulletin of the Geological 

 and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Vol. II., No. 4, pp. 351-374, plates 1-6. 



A reprint of the two previously mentioned articles by this writer, with additions 

 and illustrations. 



Mr. Bauerman, in a communication to the Geological Society of 

 London, '' On the Geology of the South Eastern part of Vancouver 

 Island,"* gives the generic name.s only of a few fossils from Nanaimo 

 and Comox, and Dr. lEectoi-'s memoir, already referred to, contains two 

 short lists of Cretaceous shells, determined liy Mr. Etheridge, one of the 

 Nanaimof and the other of the Comox and Valdez Inlet species,! none 

 of which are new to science. 



Most of the fossils described or recorded in the papers mentioned 

 above have been recognized in Mr. Eichardson's collections, upon which 

 some notes have been published by Mr. Billings in the Eeport of Progress 

 for 1872-73, and by the wi'iter in that of the following year. 



In closing these joreliminary observations, the writer gladly avails 

 himself of the opportunity of acknowledging his obligations to Mr. A. H. 

 Foord, for the care with which the drawings of the ditferent species have 

 been made, and for valuable assistance rendered in the elimination of 

 the structural characters of the latter; also to Prof E. W. Claypole, of 

 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, for advice in regard to the best 

 and most classical construction of some generic and specific names. 



•Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, November, 1658, Vol. XVI., pp. l98-2i)8. 

 t " " " " " April, 1861, VU XVII., p. 432 



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