Art V. 
REPORT 
ON THE 
MARINE SHELLS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
(By C. F. Newcombe, M. D.) 
Preliminary Check List of Marine Mollusca of British Columbia, exclusive of 
Cephalopoda and Nudibranchiata. 
The following list is based on the second Report upon the Mollusca of the 
West Coast of North America, made to the British Association by the late 
Dr. P. P. Carpenter, in 1863, and reprinted with other papers by the 
Smithsonian Institution in 1872. 
Additional information has been derived from various papers by Mr J. F. 
Whiteaves, F. R. S. Can., (fee., Assistant Director, Geological Survey of 
Canada; viz.: — 
1st. u On some Invertebrata from the West Coast of North America, 
collected by Mr. J. Richardson,” in the Canadian Naturalist, Vol. VIII., 
N. S., No. 8., December, 1878. 
2nd. “ On some Marine Invertebrata from the Queen Charlotte Islands,” 
appendix C. to Dr. G. M. Dawson’s Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands, 
1878, published in 1880. 
3rd. “ On some Marine Invertebrata dredged or otherwise collected by 
Dr. G. M. Dawson, in 1885, in the Northern part of the Strait of Georgia,” 
(fee., &c. Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., section IV., pt. IX, 1886. 
For invaluable critical assistance with regard to new and doubtful species, 
the writer is indebted to Mr. W. H. Dali, of the Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, and for opportanities of comparison with named species, to the 
Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Victoria. The latter has also given notes of species 
collected by him and not hitherto recorded from this Province. 
