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Picture to yourselves a vide, shallow brook bordered on either side 

 with tall, beautiful flowering grasses, the brilliant cardinal flower 

 and delicate lavender flowered mints, and you will have some idea 

 of the scene of loveliness which awaited us, after our nine mile drive 

 to South Jefferson, one fine day in August. The brook, which is called 

 Dyer's River, is rich in Molluscan life, and quantities of Unio com- 

 planatus were to be found there. The dead shells of Mun/u ritmiu 

 aretuifa were strewn along the banks, where they had been left by the 

 pearl hunters. After collecting all the Uitio complanatus we desired 

 we used our hand-net with good success and the following shells 

 were the result of the dredging : Campeloma <l?<-i.*iun Say, I'luiiUmn 

 ii'ijiiiliitcrnle Pr., P. rotiindatum Prime, var. torqtiatum Sterki, P. abdi- 

 tinn Hald., Amnicola limosa Say. 



My best hunting ground for land shells this Summer has been 

 the crevices of an old ledge, and an old cellar where trees grow out 

 of the cellar floor. In the cellar and on and near the ledge I found 

 Pupas, Vallonias, Succineas, Patulas and Zonites. Under some 

 bricks near a building on my own place I have for several seasons 

 found Vertigo pyymcea Drap. but the find in land shells which I value 

 most is Vallonia eostata, which I found under rocks near our old sea- 

 wall. These I have found in quantities since the tenth of November, 

 finding some as late as the 27th of December. I believe this is the 

 first time Vallona eostata has been found in Maine. 



The report of the year's effort and pleasure in the conchological 

 line would not be complete it I did not mention our trip to Old 

 Orchard Beach and Saco, Maine, one day last October. After 

 reaching the beach it took us but a short time to realize that our 

 find would be small that day, and, after three hours gleaning, we 

 had a dozen or two Siliqun eostata, one Axtarte <-/ixl<tin : <i, three Peri- 

 /i/nmn rix'/i/iiclratiiii and a few other common shells; so, after eating 

 our lunch and giving a few parting glances to the beach, we decided 

 to take the electric car for Saco, and call on the Rev. Henry W. 

 Winkley, whose interesting articles we have read in THE NAU- 

 TILUS. We had never met the gentleman, but our faith in the 

 kind-heartedness of all true lovers of Nature gave us confidence, 

 and surely this confidence was not misplaced. Mr. Winkley wel- 

 comed us most cordially and inviting us into his library gave us the 

 exquisite pleasure of closely examining the finest collecting of New 

 Kn^land shells we had ever seen. Mr. Winkley has been dredging 

 for several seasons and the many rare deep water shells in his 



