84 THAN S ACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



APPENDIX :— NOTE on DREDGING and TOW- 

 NETTING in PUGET SOUND, PACIFIC COAST. 



By W. A. Heedman. 



Between the dates occupied, as is shown above, in col- 

 lecting on the Atlantic, I crossed North America by the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway and spent nearly a week on the 

 shores of Puget Sound, examining the shore and shallow 

 water animals at various points : — notably, Victoria (British 

 Columbia) and Port Townsend, in Washington State 

 (U.S.A.). At Victoria I received much kindness, direc- 

 tions as to localities, and help in collecting from Dr. 

 Crompton and other members of the Natural History 

 Society. Mr. Fannin, the Curator of the Museum, also 

 kindly gave me facilities for preserving and packing my 

 specimens. 



At Port Townsend, thanks to the kindness of my 

 friend Dr. Bashford Dean, and Mr. B. B. Griffin, a member 

 of the Columbia University Expedition to Alaska, who gave 

 me the fullest information as to localities, and lent me 

 their dredging apparatus, I was able to do a good deal of 

 collecting in a short space of time. I hired a small 

 steamer — the "Nettie B. " — belonging to Capt. Hardie; 

 and was engaged in tow-netting and dredging during parts 

 of two days, Sept. 4th and 5th, off Port Townsend, and in 

 Scow Bay and round Marrowstone Point opposite the 

 port. The depths were up to about 20 fathoms. 



At Victoria we had one day's dredging in a petroleum 

 launch, at depths of from 5 to 15 fathoms, and one morn- 

 ing's collecting at low tide on the shore. I was fortunate 

 at both localities in getting a good deal of material, which 

 was preserved and brought home. The collection, now 



