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rest went out on the breakwater to admire the scene. The high tide 



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by moonlight was exquisitely beautiful. 



At three o'clock, after having breakfasted, we started out to col- 

 lect while the moon was still shining brightly on the water. The 

 tide was so low it seemed to me we could have walked over to San 

 Pedro. Mrs. O. and I lingered back of the other collectors, and 

 soon she picked up a Ranella californica Hds., a fine specimen which 

 now has a corner in my cabinet. How I did wish I could find one. 

 I poked around with my trowel and suddenly I struck a lump ; pick- 

 ing it up, it proved to be a perfect specimen of Pleurotoma carpen- 

 teriana Gabb, four and a quarter inches long. As I was afterward 

 told, the only live one found in the bay. After returning to the 

 cabin we put it in water, and when disturbed it exuded a purple 

 fluid. 



We walked to Dead Man's Island and found a number of Actceon 

 punctoccelatus Cpr. in the pools, Marginella Jewettii Cpr., Phasia- 

 nella compta Gld. clinging to the sea grass on the rocks ; plenty of 

 Fissurella volcano, Chlorostoma aureotinctum and Littorina planaxis 

 all along the breakwater. On our way back to the cabin we col- 

 lected Haminea virescens Sby., Sulla nebulosa Gld., Comis califor- 

 nicus Hds. and Nassa tegula Rve. We also brought home a good 

 many Chione, from which we made delicious soup. 



In July we went to Alamitos Bay, five miles from Long Beach ; 

 it was another fine low tide. This time seven of us went in a wagon 

 at four o'clock in the morning. We found Crudbulum spinosum 

 Sby. on oyster shells, Cerithidia californica and Melampus olivaceus 

 crawling up the grass stalks near the edge of the water, CEdalia 

 subdiaphana, Angulus variegatus, Liocardium substriatum and Donax 

 flexuoms living as it seemed in harmony together, also Amiantis cal- 

 losa Conr., Tapes staminea Conr., Olivella bcctica Cpr., and many 

 other shells. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF FRESHWATER LAKES IN CENTRAL 

 CELEBES. Herru P. and F. Sarasin direct attention to the re- 

 markable molluscs which live in the large and deep inland lakes of 

 Celebes. The forms they were able to capture point to the existence 

 of a fauna perhaps as interesting as that of the Lake of Baikal. 



