190 B GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



APPENDIX C. 



ON SOME MARINE INTERTEBRATA 



FROM THE 



QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 

 BY J. F. WHITEAVES. 



The whole of the specimens belonging to the species enumerated in 

 the following lists were collected by Dr. G. M. Dawson and his brother, 

 Mr. Eankine Dawson, in the summer season of 18T8, on the eastern 

 coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, along its whole extent, and off 

 the northern extremity of Graham Island, between Virago Sound and 

 North Island. 



"With the exception of a few and for the most part common littoral 

 forms, which were found to be very generally distributed, it has been 

 thought desirable to place on record the exact locality and station at 

 which each species was obtained, by dredging or otherwise, although 

 the doing of this has necessarily involved some reiteration which 

 might otherwise have been avoided. 



For valuable notes on the echinodermata and corals, and for the 

 descriptions of new species of Archaster and Solaster, the writer is 

 indebted to Prof. A. E. Verrill, of Yale College. Mr. Yf. H. Dall, of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, has kindly examined and 

 identified some of the smaller and more critical species of mollusca. 



The Crustacea collected by Dr. Dawson on the coast of Vancouver, 

 as well as at the Queen Charlotte Islands, have been reported on 

 separately by Prof. S. I. Smith, of Yale College. 



A curious fact, established by these collections, is the occurrence at 

 the Queen Charlotte Islands of several species of marine mollusca 

 previously found only much further to the southwards, and hitherto 

 supposed to be peculiar to the Californian fauna. The most notable of 



