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41 sijc€e:s»$ iiv RAiJmrve l.aivi>-l.ocke:i> sai.ition. 



By Dr. C. If. BARBER. 



[From letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



I was very successful with the laud-locked salmou eggs which I for- 

 merly received from you. Some of the fish have now been caught that 

 weigh G^ pouuds, oue party taking 23 in a single day. 



Rutland, Yt., December 12, 1883. 



45 PI^AIVTIilTG IRISH SHEI^IiS — IIEIilX ASPERSA ITliJl.tiER — AT 



WOOU'S nOI^L., iTIASS. 



By B. F. KOOIVS. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



According to your request, I give you the facts concerning the Irish 

 shells, Helix as2)er,sa Miiller, planted in connection with our work at 

 Wood's Holl, Mass., August 31, 1883: 



About the last of July, as Mr. E. A. Andrews, a former member of 

 the Fish Commission party, returned from Germany, his steamer 

 stopped at Queenstown for the mails, and while waiting there he went 

 ashore and gathered a few shells from walls along the sides of the 

 streets of the city. He said they did not seem to be aciive at the time 

 but rather dormant, simply sticking to the stones in the walls. He 

 brought seven to Wood's Holl, and gave them to me with a request to 

 plant them at some place about the shores, remarking that the climate 

 of \\'ood's Holl resembled that of Queenstown very much, and he 

 thought they would do well there. 



Wishing to have a witness as to the place, &c., I requested Prof. E. 

 Linton to accompany me, and on August 31, 1883, we took tbe shells to 

 Bush Island, at the end of Long Neck, and placed them upon a large 

 rock under a small bushy oak tree, the largest upon the island. It 

 stands 12 or 15 feet above the water and about the middle of the cres- 

 cent sJiaped north side. 



In Binney's " Land and fresh-water shells of North America," he 

 describes those from Charleston, S. C.,as introduced European species. 

 He also states that they have been found at New Orleans, Portland, Me., 

 Nova Scotia, and at at Santa Barbara, Cal. If they have flourished 

 elsewhere upon the continent in widely different climates, we may rea- 

 sonably expect to establish a colony at Wood's Holl. 



Mansfield, Conn., February 23, 1884. 



