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town, with its one long, wide street lined with whitewashed houses 

 and palaces of better days. It is a sleepy town all day, when the 

 sun shines week in and week out, but at sunset there is a change. 

 The inhabitants throng the streets, and the men loading the steamers 

 along the river side with sherry work harder than ever. Most of this 

 goes to America, and comes from near Jerez, upstream. It is 

 brought down by river or railway from the country and transferred 

 to an ocean-going freighter at Port Saint Mary. This seems to be 

 the only industry of the place besides fishing. At this season of the 

 year few shell fish were offered for sale at the market. 



Port Saint Mary was far from a dull place to me, as it might have ^ 

 proved to some persons. Every moment was occupied in searching 

 the beaches, the tide flats and the infrequent bits of rock. 



It was the day after I arrived that I made an excellent " find." 

 A long search had been made for minute species with little success 

 when I came across the following : A small cup-shaped depression 

 was observed in the sand, over which ran several streamlets. This 

 was filled with thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of minute shells 

 all in perfect preservation. As the tide was rapidly coming in the 

 only thing to do was to gather together as much of the material as 

 was possible and bring along. This was done, and it required many 

 hours of following days to work the lot out. 



Upon my return to Seville a few days later Mrs. Whishaw kindly 

 gave me a number of species which she had obtained herself on the 

 beaches. Those of the lot, which I had not taken myself, I have 

 incorporated in the appended list. 



Several walks were made to distant portions of the shore line. 

 These have been noted in the list, giving the name of the nearest 

 town. 



To Mrs. Whishaw I owe many thanks for help and suggestions, 

 besides a series of local material from the bay taking during the 

 last few summers. In preparing the following catalogue I am espe- 

 cially indebted also to Monsieurs Lamy and Germain, of the Mala- 

 cological Laboratory, of Paris, for assistance in determinations. 



Cephalopoda. 

 Sepia officinalis L. A few. 

 Spirula pronii Lam. Mrs. Whishaw, several shells. 



