Journal of conchology . J. D. DeanV^/. 89THE MARINE MOLLUSCA OF SUSSEX. IJv R. WINCKWOKTH, , (Read before the Society, December istli, 1916). The two principal localities whence these records have been obtainedare the foreshore at Black Rock, Brighton, which is of chalk, and thecoast within a few miles of Eastbourne, where I have dredged inshallow water of seven to fifteen fathoms over bottom of considerablevariety, sand, shellsand, broken shell, mud, gault clay, mussel beds,and brusk. My Brighton dredgings have so far not been so success-ful ; considerable areas consist of hard c
Journal of conchology . J. D. DeanV^/. 89THE MARINE MOLLUSCA OF SUSSEX. IJv R. WINCKWOKTH, , (Read before the Society, December istli, 1916). The two principal localities whence these records have been obtainedare the foreshore at Black Rock, Brighton, which is of chalk, and thecoast within a few miles of Eastbourne, where I have dredged inshallow water of seven to fifteen fathoms over bottom of considerablevariety, sand, shellsand, broken shell, mud, gault clay, mussel beds,and brusk. My Brighton dredgings have so far not been so success-ful ; considerable areas consist of hard chalk, and it is a four milespull to get to the ten fathom line. Many of these records are newfor Sussex, a coast which seems to have been very little studied, ifwe except the work of the Hastings Natural History Society. Yetthe district is an interesting one, and fairly rich in life, as the seventy-three species recorded for the foreshore alone shew. Among the more interesting records is Acantlwchiton discrepans(Brown),
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