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STATION 17. Fossils from quarry at back of hospital grounds, Nassau, 

 New Providence. At the base of the section is a hard white rock from which 

 was obtained 



Margaritiphora radiata Leach (Marine). Above this was a somewhat brown- 

 ish, poorly cemented, sandy layer two or three feet thick, containing an extinct 

 land shell, Cerion agassizii Ball. Above the sandy layer there is a hard white rock, 

 containing no fossils. 



STATION 18. Fossils from the narrow part of Eleuthera Island opposite 

 Savanna Sound from about five feet above sea level. The rock appeared to 



be a beach formation. 



Cerion (near agassizii Ball) fragments. 



Mytilus exustus Linn6. 



Phacoides (Here) pensylvanicus Linne. 



Phacoides (Callucina) radians Conrad. 



Phacoides (Cavilucina) trisulcatus Conrad. 



Bulla striata BruguiSre. 



Natica canrena Lamarck. 



Acmcea punctulata Gmelin. 



Balanus sp. fragments. 



STATION 19. Fossils from seolian rocks along east side Rum Cay. 



Cerion lentiginosum Maynard. 



Cepolis varians Menke. 



Cepolis agassizii new species, near varians, Menke. 



Cepolis pharcida new species, near duclosiana Ferussac. 



Helicina rawsoni Pfeiffer (Watlings Id.). 



Barbatia sp. 



Chama sp. indet., worn. 



Tectarius (muricatus"! L.) worn shell. 



Livona pica Linne. 



Claw of a small crab. 



STATION 20. Fine, rather hard, gravelly sand rock, with included worn 

 calcareous pebbles, from about one mile north of Pigeon Hill, Eleuthera 

 Island, and about one mile inland. 



Mytilus exustus Linne. 

 Lampusia sp. (fragment). 

 Chlorostoma sp. (young shell). 



STATION 21. Bluff of Eleuthera Island about a mile north of Bluff 

 settlement and six feet above sea level. Above the rock containing these 

 fossils is a stratum of rock of aeolian origin. The matrix of the fossils is a 

 soft, fine, calcareous sand rock. 



Glycymeris americana Bef ranee. 



Phacoides (Here) pensylvanicus Linne. 



Cerithium floridanum Morch. 



