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Excerpt from Critical Review of Biology and Control of Oyster Drills: Urosalpinx and Eupleura Say's type drill is probably the small form, rather than the giant one, since his measurement of the type is approximately 32 mm and probably came from Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where Say stated, that he had collected the species (pilsbry, pers. Com.; Abbott, pers. Rather than from the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia where the giant form occurs (henderson and Bartsch, 1915; Baker, Unfortunately Say's type specimen of Fusus cinereus has been lost and is thus not available for study (pilsbry, 'pers. Com.) 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.