602 REPORT—1863. 
maturely closed investigations of Dr. Kennerley are only the beginning of a 
rich harvest. Dr. George Suckley, late assistant-surgeon of the U.S. army, 
was appointed to complete the natural-history work, after his lamented 
death. A complete list of the species collected will be found in the fifth column 
of the Vancouver and Californidn table, v. mfrd, par. 112. The particulars 
of station, &c., and all the knowledge which the laborious explorer had col- 
lected, are lost to science. It is quite possible that some of the species here 
accredited to Puget Sound were obtained in neighbouring localities in the 
Straits of De Fuca. The specimens are in beautifully fresh condition, and 
of most of them the animals were preserved in alcohol. The following are the 
shells first brought from the Vancouver district by the American N. W. 
Boundary Commission, the diagnoses of new species being (according to 
custom) first published in the Proceedings of the Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia. 
. Zirphea crispata. Two living specimens of this yery characteristic Atlantic sp. 
. Sazicava pholadis. Several living specimens. 
Sphenia ovoidea,n.s. One sp. living. 
. Cryptomya Californica. Several living sp. 
Thracia curta. One specimen. 
Mytilimeria Nuttallii, Three sp. living at base of test of Ascidian. [The animal 
appeared too peculiar to venture on a dissection. It has been entrusted to 
Di Alcock, of the Manchester Museum. | 
. Neera pectinata,n.s. One sp. living. 
. Kennerlia filosa, n.s. and n. subg. Several living specimens. 
. Psammolia rubroradiata. One fresh specimen of uniform tint. 
. Macoma (? v.) expansa. Adult broken; young living. Belongs to a group of 
forms classed together by some writers under lata or proxima, but the cha- 
racters of the hinge and mantle-bend have not yet been sufficiently studied. 
11. Macoma yoldiformis, n.s. One valve. 
12. Angulus modestus, n.s., but closely allied to the eastern A. tener, Say. Two 
sp. living. 
126. pistes (Pmodestus, yar.) obtusus. Several fresh specimens. 
13. Clementia subdiaphana, n.s. Very rare, living. Intermediate between Cle- 
mentia proper and the prora group of thin Calliste. 
14. Psephis Lordi, Baird. Several living sp. from which the subg. was eliminated. 
15. Venus Kennerlyi, Rye. Very rare. One sp. living. Some of the shells called 
V. astartoides by Midd, may be the young of this. 
16. Petricola carditoides. Several fresh specimens. 
17. Astarte (? var.) compacta. One sp. living; may hereafter be connected with 4. 
compressa. 
18. Serripes Grenlandicus. Several young living specimens. 
19. Lucina tenuisculpta, n. 8, Two living specimens, of which one had the surface 
disintegrated. 
20. Cryptodon serricatus, n.s. One living sp. 
21. Kellia Laperousii. A few living specimens. 
22. Kellia suborbicularis. A few living specimens. 
23. Lasea rubra. One sp. living. 
24. Pythina rugifera, n. s. Two living sp. Intermediate between Pythina and 
Kellia. 
25. Tellimya tumida,n.s. One sp. living. 
26. Modiolaria lewigata. Two living ps 
27. Modiolaria marmorata. One sp. living. (A shell in the U. 8. E. E. Col., 
though marked “ Fiji” in Dr. Gould’s MS. list, probably came from Puget 
Sound, being thus confirmed. ) 
28. Nucula tenuis. Two sp. living*, 
29. Acila castrensis. One sp. tying. 
30. Leda fossa, Baird. One normal sp. living. 
* These species were kindly determined by Mr. Hanley. 
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