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Binney’s Land and Fresh- water Shells of North America 
(part II, 1865) contains the following: 
Physa gyrina Say. Bowyer Creek, near Council Bluff; p 77. 
Planorhis campanulatus Say. Quasquitan, (i. e., Quasqueton) Iowa; 
p. 110. 
A. A. Gould reports Helix monodo7i from Iowa, on p. 420 of 
the Report on the Inver tebrata of Massachusetts, 1870. 
In several cases mollusks were reported from the Big Sioux 
river, as in Binney’s Land and Fresh-water Shells of North 
America, part II, 1865, pp. 41, 44, 48, 67, 89, 105, 110, 121, 124, 
134; part III, 1865, p. 83; in Roberts’ Report on Mollusca, 1871, 
p. 467 ; and in Ingersoll’s Special Report on the Mollusca, 1876, 
p. 405. In most of these cases it is impossible to determine 
whether the shells were collected on the Iowa or South Dakota 
side of the river, or in that part of the stream lying wholly 
within South Dakota. The former is more probable. In one 
case only is the reference given as ‘ ‘ Big Sioux river, Nebraska. ’ ’ 
This is in Roberts’ Report. South Dakota was then a part of 
Nebraska Territory. 
Insects. 
In Say’s American Entomology frequent references are made 
to ‘‘Engineer Cantonment” and “Engineer Cantonment near 
Council Bluff”, and also to “Council Bluff on the Missouri” 
or “in Missouri”. As noted, both localities are in Nebraska. 
Such references occur in volume I, on pp. 117 and 388, and in 
volume II, on pp. 32, 101, 128, 131, 135, 136, 138, 141, 144, 158, 
167, 175, 196, 203, 231, 239, 243, 245, 246, 255, 257, 258, 259, 
277, 528, 575, 579, 637. Several less definite references are also 
made to what are apparently Nebraska localities. The only 
definite Iowa references are the following, in volume II: 
Golym'betes venustus — “in a pond near Bowyer Creek, Missouri”; 
p. 90. 
Hydroporus undiilatus — “In a pond near Bowyer Creek, Upper Mis- 
souri”; p. 99. 
Fishes. 
Few references to fishes occur in the older reports. The Lewis 
and Clark Journals (Thwaites’ edition), Vol. I, p. 90, contain 
a reference to a “white catfish”, probably Ictaliirus punc- 
tatus,^^ probably from Iowa, and the narrative of the Long Ex- 
pedition, (Thwaites’ edition), Vol. I,, p-. 277, refers to a num- 
ber of small fishes taken in a pond near the Boyer. 
30See Coues’ edition, Vol. I, p. 54. 
