THE NAUTILUS. 



VOL. XXIV. JULY, 1910. No. 3 



SHELL COLLECTING IN PUGET SOUND AND ALASKA. 



BY DR. FRED BAKER, SAN DIEGO, CAL. 



During the last summer it was my good fortune to take a most 

 enjoyable trip to Seattle, Washington, where the Alaska- Yukon- 

 Pacific Fair was in full swing ; to the San Juan Islands in Puget 

 Sound, where the Summer School of the University of Washington 

 was in session ; and on to Alaska, reaching a point as far west as 

 Cook's Inlet. At all points possible I collected shells, and a full list 

 of species and localities follows at the end of this article. It is a 

 grateful task to acknowledge help in naming all doubtful species at 

 the hands of Dr. W. H. Dall and Dr. Paul Bartsch of the National 

 Museum, and the Rev. Geo. W. Taylor of Nanaimo, British Colum- 

 bia. Without their help this article could only have been an account 

 of the wanderings of a very amateurish conchologist. 



The University of Washington, in connection with several other 

 institutions which join forces with her, conducts a summer school on 

 a group of islands in Puget Sound, there are a hundred and fifty of 

 them which constitute the county of San Juan in the State of Wash- 

 ington, and here my wife and I dropped down on about fifty of the 

 best people on earth, as biologists always are. This year they were 

 trying the experiment of doing work in two places, and we arrived 

 just in time to help them move camp from San Juan Island to Olga, 

 on Orcas Island, thirteen miles away. 



Orcas Island, the second largest of the group, supports a consider- 

 able farming population, but is much broken, and boasts a peak, Mt. 

 Constitution, 2660 feet high, from which we had a glorious pano- 



