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maturely closed investigations of Dr. Kennerley are only the beginning of a 

 rich harvest. Dr. George Suoldey, 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 he found in the fifth column 

 of the Vancouver and Californian table, v. infra, par. 112. ^ The particulars 

 of station, &e., 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 Puca. 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, 



No. 



1. Zirpheea crispata. Two living specimens of this very characteristio Atlantic sp. 



2. Saxicava pholadis. Several living specimens. 



3. Sphcsnia ovoidea, n. s. One sp. living. 



4. Oryptomya Californica. Several living sp. 



5. Thracia curia. One specimen. 



G. Myttlimeria Nwttallii. Three sp. living at base of test of Ascidian. [The animal 

 appeared too peculiar to venture on a dissection. It has been entrusted to 

 Dr. Alcoek, of the Manchester Museum.] 



7. Necera pectinata, n. g. One sp. living. 



8. KennerUa filosa, n. a. and n. subg. Several living specimens. 



9. Psammobia ruhroradiata. One fresh specimen of uniform tint. 



10. Macoma (Pv.) expansa. Adult broken; young living. Belongs to a gi-oup 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 yoldifm-mis, n. s. One valve. 



12. Angulus modestus, n. s., but closely allied to the eastern A. tener, Say. Two 



sp. living. 

 125. Angulus (?modt!stus, var.) oUvsus. Several fresh specimens. 



13. dementia mbdiapkana, n. s. Very rare, living. Intermediate between de- 



mentia proper and the prora gi'oup of thin Callisfa. 



14. Psephis Lordi, Baird. Several living sp. fi-om which the subg. was eliminated. 



15. Venus Kennerlyi, Rve. Very rai'e. One sp. living. Some of the shells called 



V. astartoides by Midd. may he the young of this. 



16. Fetricola carditoides. Several fresh specimens. 



17. Astarte (? Y3I.') compacta. One sp. living ; may hereafter be connected with ^i. 



compressa. 



18. Serripes Grcenlandicus. Several young living specimens. 



19. Lucina tenuisculpta, n. s. Two living specimens, of which one had the surface 



disintegrated. 



20. Cryptodon serrioatus, n. s. One living sp. 



21. Kellia Laperotisii. A few living specimens. 



22. Kellia suhorbicularis. A few living specimens. 



23. Lasea rubra. One sp. living. 



24. Pythina rugif&ra, n. s. Two living sp. Intermodiato between Pythina and 



JCellia. 



25. Tellimya tumida, n. s. One sp. living. 



26. Modiolaria Itmngata. Two living sp. 



27. Modiolaria marmorata. One sp. living. (A shell in the U. S. 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. Adla castrensis. One sp. living. 



30. Leda fossa, Baivi. One normal sp. living. 



* These species were kindly cletermined by Mr. Hanlev. 

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