Sept. I left blue shales with bands of lime- stone. This is the first port Richmond, and it again remains at the mayor's office. These became mine when dust (or) a dam and in there I secured after dry and care- ful collecting a small fauna consisting of: Calymene, Platymetopus, Amplexus, Trimuculus, Illecebus, Loriculus, Plectambonites, Phyllopodia and a sponge or Pascerlus. In the afternoon had two men take us to the east side of Pierce Rock. On going there soon after leaving the craft one is im- presed with the strange appearance of the rock aby the first rains) but in around to the East side one is more impressed with the Rock than by the western arm because the arms are deeper and then is more green plant coating probably lichens. Seemed two logs of fossils and of the same species as those found yesterday. As this eastern face of Pierce is chiefly exposed to the sea one readily sees here the action from the action of the sea. In many