THE ANNALS 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[FOURTH SERIES.] 
No. 36. DECEMBER 1870. 
XLIIL— Report on the Testaceous Mollusca obtained during a 
Dredging-Excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months of 
February and March 1869. By RoBERT M‘AnpREw*. 
In the course of an excursion in the East, accompanied by 
my family, in the early months of 1868, I spent a day at Suez, 
where I was so much struck by the novelty of the species of 
shells on the shore of the Gulf, so totally different from any 
I had seen on the coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, 
that I resolved to return the following year provided with the 
implements &c. required for investigating the marine fauna, 
more especially the Mollusca, of the district, which offered so 
tempting a field for research. 
Accordingly, in the month of January last year (1869), 
having forwarded dredges, rope, and other appliances by 
merchant-steamer, and having been so fortunate as to enlist Mr. 
Edward Fielding as a companion, and engaged the assistance 
of M. Susini, an experienced collector of shells, I proceeded by 
way of Marseilles to Alexandria. The interval between our 
arrival and that of the apparatus (about a fortnight) was occu- 
pied in a short visit to uiro; and in coming to a determina- 
tion, under the advice of our friends in those parts, as to our 
course of proceeding, of which we had previously been enabled 
to form no definite plan. 
I was lucky in meeting with a dragoman in whom I had 
full confidence, having made his acquaintance the previous 
year; and I arranged with him to supply tents, provisions, and 
the requirements for encampment in the desert, including 
a good cook; and at Suez he brought me into contact with 
boatmen, his compatriots (Maltese), with whom I made terms 
for the cruise. 
* Communicated by the Author, E been read at the Meeting of 
the British Association held at Liverpool, Sept. 1870. 
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