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bagged twenty Polynyra Chilhoweensis, These were fine, some pearly 

 white and dentated. We- also obtained a few P. appressa perigrapta 

 Pils. and other good shells. There were none to throw away, for 

 even the Pyramidula altcrnata were a beautifully ribbed variety, var. 

 costifera Lewis, perhaps. 



P. Chilhoweensis is an active snail, and whenever a piece of shaded 

 open woods in some level cove was found it was almost sure to be there 

 in the old brush piles or around old logs and stumps. P. perigrapta 

 is a bark shell, sometimes found |in the moss upon the trunks of the 

 poplar trees and basswood, but usually under the old bark of dead 

 trees. We found ninety in one hour among the slabs of an old mill 

 yard. The favorite trees for snails are the basswood, buckeye and 

 poplar, the latter known in other localities as tulip or white wood. 

 The stumps of the latter, when damp, are covered with the small va- 

 rieties of Zonites, Pupa and Strobilops. 



The next day a short trip was made to a piece of oak barrens where 

 Poly. Christyi was to be found among the dead leaves. Here we also 

 found a beautiful rose-colored albolabrix, called " redii " for short, of 

 about thirty mm. in width; tridentata with double teeth; Gastro's 

 interte.cta, demissa and gularis ; also Omphalina Andrcicstt and variety 

 montivaga. Pils ; fuliginosa and variety polita, Pils.; IMicodiscus 

 fimbriatus, Wetherby ; Poly. Clark! and a Strobilops I am waiting 

 to hear what Mr. Pilsbry has to say about it. 



The third day we took our dinner pails and went farther and found 

 plenty of Poly. Wheatlyi and some fine stenotrema depilata Pils. It 

 rained and Mr. Clapp had difficulty with a pair of rubber boots. Wet 

 boots are hard on the feet. With the aid of two canes he could do but 

 little more than crawl coming down the mountain. Not being very much 

 acquainted with him at that time, not knowing how far to press him, 

 fearing he might think I wanted to run off with his boots, he was 

 punished a little more than really necessary. When he had about 

 come to a standstill I persuaded him to trade for my moccasins. I then 

 carried the boots upon my back to show good faith, and we rolled 

 homeward with light hearts, though our feet were heavy. 



For collecting small shells Mr. Clapp had wooden pill bottles with 

 wooden stoppers. For the Helices I had a small fisherman's creel 

 with a wide rubber band over the mouth, in which there was a slit. 

 To turn over sticks and barks and kill rattlesnakes I had something of 

 a ginseng hook made of a socket garden hoe, the blade cut down to an 

 about an inch and a half in width and about four inches in length* 



