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of the outer surface by the weather and wind-blown sand, during 

 many years of exposure. 



For the purpose of more fully illustrating this exceptionally large 

 specimen, I have introduced a photograph. Fig. 2, which shows the 

 base or larger end of it, with a view right through the hollow 

 interior to the other extremity. Near the distal end of the funnel 



Fig. 2. Mourning emblem. View through the interior. 



shaped cavity there is a discolored streak in the wall or shell, which 

 can be seen in the photograph. Such a mark could have been 

 caused by a stoppage of the work or additional material, which was 

 not quite of the same shade along the joining line. There is a thin, 

 irregularly shaped patch on the outside of the cylinder, which was 

 evidently put on after the main trunk had been completed, either to 

 secure a uniformly rounded contour or to remedy some defect in 

 the original structure. 



When the specimen was discovered, it was lying in the position 

 shown in Fig. 2, with all the lower part embedded in the sandy bank 

 of Lake Tongo, and had apparently lain in that position for a long 

 time. The upper half, from a right back to the other end, was 

 fully exposed to the weather for many years, and is consequently 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC, XLIX. I96 T, PRINTED SEPTEMBER 6, I9IO. 



