112 WHITE AVES ON MARINE INVERTEBRATA, ETC., 



STATIONS. QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND. (Continued.) 



No. 13. Cullen Harbour, Broughton Island, Fife Sound, in four to eight fathoms, sand and mud. 



14. Alert Bay, on the west coast of Cormorant Island, and nearly opposite the mouth of the Nimpkish 



River, Vancouver Island, in Broughton Strait, in ten fathoms, sand and mud. 

 15. Between Alert Bay and the mouth of the Nimpkish River, Vancouver Island, in ten to twenty fathoms, 



gravel. 

 10. Near Suquash, off Pulteney Point, Malcolm Island, Broughton Strait, in twenty-five fathoms, sand, 



gravel and dead shells. 



17. Off False Head, Vancouver Island, in thirty fathoms, sand, gravel and dead shells. 

 18. Off Blunden Harbour, mainland of British Columbia, in six to ten fathoms, sand. 



QUATSINO SOUND, NORTH-WEST COAST OP VANCOUVER ISLAND. 



19. Quatsino Sound, off Entrance Island, in from thirty to fifty fathoms, mud and sand. 

 20. Forward Inlet, Quatsino Sound, in ten to twenty fathoms, mud. 



Owing to the systematic way in which the collections were made, the series of 

 marine invertebrata now reported upon is by far the most extensive and important that 

 has yet been made by any of the exploring parties of the Survey. The Crustacea, with the 

 exception of the minute and for the most part larval forms collected in the towing net, 

 have been kindly examined by Prof. S. J. Smith, of Yale College, who will report on them 

 separately. The sponges, hydroids (with one exception), polyzoa, and worms, have not 

 yet been studied. Including the foraminifera, the number of species that have been iden- 

 tified so far is approximately as follows : 



No. OP SPECIES. 



Foraminifera - , , -, , 19 



Hydroida 1 



Anthozoa 2 



Echinodermata 15 



Tunicata 1 



Brachiopoda 4 



Lamellibranchiata 54 



Gasteropoda 88 



Cephalopoda 1 



TOTAL 185 



At station No. T, the sand which came up in the dredge, when washed and examined 

 under the microscope, was found to be unusually rich in diatomaceae. Among these, 

 connected frustules of Himantidium, Tabellaria and Grammatophora marina are frequent, 

 associated with separate frustules of Arachnoidiscus Ehrenbergii (rare), Amphitetras antedilu- 

 viana, and of species belonging to the genera Amphora, Campylodiscus, Coscinodiscus, Fragilaria, 

 Gyrosigma, Licmophora, Navicida, Podosphainia, Surirella and Tric&ratium, 



Samples of the sand, mud, etc., dredged from the bottom at ten of these stations were 

 saved to be examined for foraminifera. The species from the Vancouver district do not 

 appear to have previously been studied by any naturalist, and the present list of the 

 foramiuifera of that region, though making no pretence to completeness, is believed to be 

 the first that has yet been published. The largest and most conspicuous form is the 

 Rhabdammina abyssorum of M. Sars, which was taken abundantly at three of the stations. 



