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Excerpt from Bulletins of American Paleontology, Vol. 51: 1966-1967 Because Dr. John H. Dearborn made such thorough collee tions in the extremely cold waters Of the ross Sea, I believe that the us. National Museum has almost all of the pelecypod species that occur in this region. It is understood, again, that all Of the col lections were made from relatively shallow water - no more than 836 m in this instance. A few deep-water species are undoubtedly present in the Ross Sea which were not collected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.