82 THE NAUTILUS. 



zone, between a line drawn due west from Carmel river and the 

 southern boundary of the county. 



Monterey City, with its Del Monte hotel and fine surroundings, 

 Pacific Grove with it.s many attractive features, the beautiful Car- 

 mel Valley and the old Mission church, make the region hereabout 

 the most popular seaside resort in Central Calitornia, and draw 

 great numbers of people from all parts of the state. The rambles 

 along the shore, collecting the beautiful Abalones and other shells, 

 by visitors, who carry them away as souvenirs, has been one of the 

 many attractions, and has had no doubt something to do with the 

 above action on the part of the authorities, to prevent the extermin- 

 ation of one of Nature's most beautiful forms. Whatever may have 

 been the motive that lias led to this restrictive regulation, it is amply 

 justified on the broad ground of public interest, and the example of 

 the Monterey supervisors should be followed by the officials in all of 

 the coast counties. R. E. C. S. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN IDS., SETT. 1G, 1899. 



My trip to Alaska was most interesting and successful. 

 My attention was chiefly given to geologv and paleontology, so I had 

 little time for collecting shells, still I did something and added a few 

 points to our knowledge of geographical distribution. The most in- 

 teresting was the discovery at Biorka Island, at the entrance of 

 Sitka sound, that a number of the southern species creep up along 

 the seaward margin of the archipelago much further north than they 

 do among the islands. Thus I found Leptotliyra carpenteri, Psam- 

 mobia California a, CaUiostoma filos/tm, etc., at Biorka, though they 

 do not occur in Sitka Sound nor, as far as I know, much north of 

 Vancouver Island, in the inner channels. Prof. Ritter, of Cala. 

 State University, did the dredging that was done, but the results in 

 mollusks were less novel than in other directions. 



After our return to Portland I came down here Aug. 9th per 

 steamer, making the passage in six days very comfortably. The sea 

 en route was much less supplied than I had expected with pteropods 



