No. 36. DECEMBER 1870. XLIII.-Report on the Testaceous Mollusca obtained d~tring a Dredging-Excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months of February and March 1869. By ROBERT M'ANDREW*. IN the course of an excursion in the East~ accompanied by my family, in the early months of 1868, I spent a day at Suez, where I was so much struck by the novelty of the species of shells on the shore of the Gulf~ so totally different from any I had seen on the coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlanti% that I resolved to return the following year provided with the implements &c. required for investigating the marine fauna~ more especially the Mollasca~ of the district, which offered so tempting a field for research. Accordingly~ in the month of January last year (1869), having forwarded dredges~ rop% and other appliances by merchant-steamer, and having been so fortunate as to enlist Mr. Edward Fielding as a companion, and engaged the assistance of M. Susini, an experienced collector of shells, I proceeded by way of Marseilles to Alexandria. The interval between our arrival and that of tile apparatus (about a fortnight) was occupied in a short visit to Cairo, and in coming to a determination, under the advice of our friends in those parts, as to our course of proceeding~ of which we had previously been enabled to form no definite plan. I was lucky in meeting with a dragoman in whom I had full confidence, having .... made his acquaintance the previous year ; and I arranged with him to supply tents, prowsmns~ and all the requirements for encampment in the desert~ including a good cook l and at Suez he brought me into contact with boatmen, his compatriots (Maltese), with whom I made terms for the cruise. * Communicated by the Author, having been read ut the Meeting of the British Association held at Liverpool~ Sept. 1870.
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