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running to a point. Mrs. Andrews lent us a surgeon's hook. Mr. 

 Clapp had a surgeon's abscess syringe and I had a brush, or swab with 

 a flexible handle, made by twisting small copper wire around a piece 

 of sponge. Our collections were cleaned up every day and the shells 

 are cb'an. In cooking we kept the water at a boiling point, and with 

 a dipper made of wire netting boiled the large Poly. Andmcmp, a few 

 at a time, the albolaljrls or Gliilhoweensis 40 seconds; ajtprcssa and Fer- 

 rissii 18; the Omp. Andrewsse, 8, and Christyi and Stcnotremas ">. 

 the small Zouites 3 seconds. 



The evening of this third day Mr. Clapp powdered his feet with 

 talcum and the next morning was ready to go up to Thuuderhead with 

 a mule. Here we camped several days to recuperate, and opened a 

 mine for G astro, lamellidens. These snails are under the shingle or 

 spawls of rock from one to two feet down. With these \ve found a 

 new Gastro. about the size of Gastro. AiiJrcicsfr, which Mr. Pilsbry 

 named " Clappi." It is exceedingly frail, and before we un- 

 derstood this many of our few examples were broken. There will be 

 only enough for Pilsbry and the National Museum this time. We 

 also found it at Mirey Ridge, about twelve miles further east. 



The mules were brought up again to move us, but were so loaded 

 with our camp dunnage we walked. Mrs. F. could not walk half a 

 mile to the street cars at home. Mr. Clapp left us at this camp for 

 home, and Mrs. F. and I stayed another week alone and then took a 

 hasty trip to Clingman's Dome when the mules came again. It rained 

 all that part of the trip and we went back to the Cove in one day in the 

 rain. There were twenty miles to cover and a number of those sat 

 upon edge, so they didn't count, but Mrs. F. had her mule to ride this 

 time. I only found the red and banded varieties of Poly. Andrewsx and 

 Fi't-rissii upon Clingman in the two hours I was there. I was a little 

 afraid of bears and may not have looked close enough for the smaller 

 varieties. 



Before leaving, Mr. Clapp helped to open a mine for Fen-lssi'i upon 

 the slope of Mirey Ridge. The shingle was soon abandoned, for we 

 found the snails under heavy, damp slabs of stone from three to twenty 

 feet across, piled up at the foot of slides. By clearing away the inoss 

 and roots and getting light under, and by taking different angles of 

 observation we could often find two or three under one roof, and occa- 

 sionally a Whcatlcyi, and I once found tbe new Gastrodonta. The 

 young of Ferrissii were hirsute. We wore our finger nails down to 

 the sore point and crawled around on the damp soil until our lady 



