24 THE NAUTILUS. 



CONCHOLOGY IN THE KLONDYKE. The following extract from a 

 letter just received from Mr. P. B. Randolph, of Seattle, Wash., 

 who is now in the Klondyke, may be of interest to readers of the 

 NAUTILUS. Mr. Randolph left Seattle on July 31st of last year, 

 and was 28 days in reaching Dawson City. He writes : " On my 

 way in I collected a number of the smaller land and fresh water 

 shells of the coast region at Dyea, on the ocean side of the mount- 

 ains, and at Lake Linderman on the Yukon water shed. They 

 consisted, on the Dyea side, of Paiula pauper, Conulus fulrus, Ver- 

 tigo ovata (?) ; on Lake Linderman of the same with Vitrina sp., 

 Limmm two species and Valvata sincera(7). 



" At Duncan's Island, on the trip up, I collected a number of 

 Selenites Vancouver ensis and Mesodon townsendiana. I found two 

 dead shells here (Dawsou City) of Succinea sp., and hope to find 

 specimens when the snow melts, though the fires ran through this 

 country last year completely destroying the undergrowth and moss." 

 Geo. H. Clapp. 



Sometime ago Mrs. Mary P. Gluey of Spokane, Washington, sent 

 to me a small lot of Pyramidula strigosa Gld. and young taken from 

 the oviducts of some found in Rathdrum, Idaho. In reply to my 

 inquiry about them she writes : " I had cleaned several hundred 

 strigosa and never found but one specimen with young, until a lot 

 of fifty from which these came, and which contained from 6 to 15 

 each. S. Raymond Roberts. 



A specimen of Unio complanatus Sol. (dead shell, but good and 

 rather large), has recently been found at New Philadelphia, Ohio, 

 in a mill race on the Tuscarawas River, Ohio River drainage. 

 Probably the species has spread from Lake Erie by way of the Ohio 

 Canal over the divide. Dr. V. Sterki. 



LIST OF A COLLECTION OF SHELLS FROM THE GULF OF ADEN, 

 by W. H. Dall (Field Columbian Museum Pub., No. 26). A brief 

 list of shells collected by the well known ornithologist D. G. Elliot. 

 There are numerous typographical errors such as Nerita " albicola," 

 Trochus " saya," Turritella "torutosa," etc., etc., and two Olivas are 

 put in the Trochidce. The value of the list hardly warrants the pre- 

 tentious style of publication, but as it was published, it would have 

 been better had the proof been submitted to the author for cor- 

 rection, for, of course, the blunders are not Dall's. 



