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Bela & Trophon sp. dead & Amphissa corrugata typical 1 broken specimen. Also 1 ditto [[Ditto for: broken]] Machaera patula & a lot of Echinarachnis - beside two crabshells_ 
April 16. Capt. Hall after a number of unsuccessful attempts obtains a specimen living & perfect of the remarkable sinistral buccinoid form of which fragments have been obtained previously, here & at Unalashka. 
The operculum is peculiar & dextral, so small as not to cover the animal when contracted to its greatest ability. The mant[[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]]le is very large extending some distance over [[insertion]] the [[/insertion]] whorl on the right side of the aperture. Its

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Species and location names checked as well as possible. Questionable ones put in [[?]].