364 A. FE. Verrill—Post-pliocene fossils of Sankoty Head. 
Art. L.—- Brief Contributions to Zoology from the Museum of 
Yale College. No. XXXVI.—On the Post-pliocene fossils of 
Sankoty Head, Nantucket Island; by A. HE. VERRILL; with 
a note on the Geology ; by S. H. ScuppEr. 
curred on our coast. Accordingly one of our dredging 
parties, consisting of Prof. A. Hyatt, Mr. Sanderson Smith, Mr. 
C. H. i 
were kept distinct. Some of our most interesting results have 
been due wholly to the care with which he made and labelled this 
the same species that are now found cast upon the outer 
Nannie and Cape Cod by storms, and living 1m 
the colder outer waters, off the same coasts. : 
In the list published by Desor and Cabot seventeen species 
were enumerated, and those from the different beds were not 
kept separate. In our collections there are about sixty specles, 
* Quarterly Journal of . c . 340, Feb., 
1849. An Bo of Beate te, bis tetesa se Pekand to wb Memoirs 
_ of the Boston Soe. of Nat. History, vol. i, p. 252, 1866. See also Proc. Boston 
Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iii, p. 79, and this Journal, II, xiv, 50. 
