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always remember the courtesy shown to me, and the kindly interest 

 taken in my growing desire to know something about conchology 

 by those who have long made it a study. 



MRS. MARY P. DARLING has collected, at the various beaches in 

 Los Angeles County, and reports " one hundred and eighty-three 

 species; among them are a live Calliostoma splendens and a dead 

 Nassa insculpta." 



WITH A DREDGE. 



[Report of Miss Ida M. Shepard. From the Transactions of the Isaac Lea Concholoirical 

 Chapter of the Agassiz Association lor 1894.] 



I have added a number of specimens to my collection during the 

 year, and had the pleasure of dredging in the bay, with very good 

 results. It is with impatience we wait the dredge to fill, after drop- 

 ping it over the stern of the boat; and when it comes up filled with 

 mud how we watch and exclaim over some treasure we see as the 

 mud is being washed out. But often we find nothing, and often 

 many good and rare specimens. I will tell 'you of what a few 

 dredges contained. After the dredge is pulled up and the mud 

 washed out, the contents, if any, are dumped into the tub, and we 

 look it over, and find nothing but a stone or two and a few Ollvella 

 boetica, Tornalina culcitella, and young Riclaxis punctocaelatus. 

 After the dredge was dropped over again, I picked up a small stone 

 and looked it over, and soon gave an exclamation of delight, for, on 

 one side, snugly in its nest, was a fine, large Lima orientalis Ad. & 

 Rve. It did not take long to cut the nest from the stone and put it 

 into ajar of sea-water, and before we reached the shore the Lima 

 came out of the nest and swam around the jar. I wish I could give 

 a good description of what a beauty it was swimming. Will do the 

 best I can. About j of the length of the shell the tentacles are of a 

 bright rose color, the rest pure white, and, as it swam around, its 

 beauty can be imagined. The tentacles are about i inch in length. 

 It would put out its foot at times to help it along. 



Another dredge brought up a fine, large Clidlophora punctata 

 Cpr., and it gave an exhibition after being put into a cup of sea- 

 water and sand. Other dredges gave live Dentalium hexagonum 

 Sby., Seala hindsii Cpr., Eulima micans Cpr., Mangllia varieyata 

 Turbonilla tridentata, Macoma yoldiformis, and the pretty Tellina 

 variegata Cpr. 



