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ject during the Chautauqua Assembly at Long Bench, Cal. Though 

 unfortunately, not a member of his class, some of my friends were 

 enthusiastic students under him, and through them, the enthusiasm 

 or " craze," as we somtimes call it, was communicated to me, and I 

 very shortly became as eager a student and collector as my circum- 

 stances would allow. Happily for me, my husband shared my in- 

 interest, and most of our collecting has been done together, and 

 many of my choicest treasures were found by him in places I could 

 not venture in places where the waves dashed too high for my 

 courage, or under rocks too heavy for my strength to lift. So this 

 report must be understood as a record of our joint work. 



In the winter of '93 and '94, we made a number of visits to Long 

 Beach and San Pedro, going as far as Alamitos Bay in one direc- 

 tion and nearly to the old wharf beyond Times' Point at San Pedro. 

 We collected quantities of shells, but as it would be impossible and 

 unprofitable to mention them all, I will speak only of the rarer ones. 

 Under the rocks at Dead Man's Island, we found, on our first 

 trip, a number of specimens of each of the following varieties : 

 Volvuriiiu I'lina, Tert'bratelln traiixn-rxu, and Luzaria subquadrata. 



We also dug a number of fine fossil pectens out of the bank. One 

 of the choicest shells found by us that day has never been fully iden- 

 tified by me. By some it is called Cerostumn fn/intum, by others 

 Mwex triulatm? At any rate it is a rare and interesting shell, and I 

 have never seen another like it. On another trip up the beach above 

 San Pedro we found, by digging in the sand with a trowel, some 

 fine specimens of Stenoradsia magdalenensis, the largest Chiton on 

 this part of the coast. 



We also found several Hinnites gigmitens Gray, Gumingia Califor- 

 nia Conr., Lucapina crenulata Sby., and a fine old Mitra iinnu-n 

 Swains., two inches in length, of which we are justly proud. In the 

 spring of '94 we were on a visit in Ventura County, and when our 

 friends proposed a trip to the beach, we interposed no objections. 

 They drove to Punta Gorda, meaning Point of Rocks, most ap- 

 propriately named, for I have seldom seen such a bed of rocks jut- 

 ting out so boldly into the sea. They were literally covered with 

 the largest species of mussels, many of them being nearly, if not, six 

 inches in length. In the sheltered places in these rocks we found 

 quantities of Purpura saxicola Val. and Monoeero* lapilloides Conr. 

 Our patient search in the rock pools was rewarded by our finding 

 Opalia crenatoides Cpr. 

 'The shell proved to be Pterorhytis trialatus Sby. 



