CHAP. II.] THE CRUISE OF THE ‘ LIGHTNING, 63 
appropriately close these chapters, I now dedicate 
this volume, in remembrance of the great kindness 
which we invariably experienced from her and from 
her excellent husband. 
We lay in Thorshavn harbour till the 26th of 
August, the weather being so bad as to make all idea 
of pursuing our work outside hopeless. Whenever it 
was possible we dredged in the fjords with Féroese 
boats and native boatmen, and we made the acquaint- 
ance of Sysselman Miller, the representative of Feéroe 
in the Danish Parliament, who had made himself 
thoroughly conversant with the mollusca of Féroe, 
and had contributed his information to a list published 
in 1867 by Dr. O. A. L. Morch. The shallow-water 
fauna seems to be scanty, as we find frequently to be 
the case on a bed of decomposing trap. It is of a 
character intermediate between that of Shetland and 
the Scandinavian coast. ‘The forms which perhaps 
interested us most were Fusus despectus, L.—a hand- 
some shell which may possibly be only a very marked 
variety of Fusus antiquus, L.; but if so, it is one with 
very definite limit of distribution, as it occurs only 
rarely in very deep water in the British seas. In water 
of moderate depth among the Fieroes it is abundant, 
apparently replacing F. antiquus. Another common 
Feroe shell is Tellina calcarea, CHEMNITZ,-—a very 
abundant British glacial clay fossil, but not hitherto 
found recent in the British area. In the glacial clays 
near Rothesay it is in regular beds associated with 
Mya truncata, L., var. uddevallensis, ForBEs ; Saai- 
cava norvegica, SPRENGLER; Pecten islandicus, O. F. 
MUtuer, and other northern forms, and frequently 
so fresh that the two valves are still in position and 
