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with odors of pine and fir ; an experience never to be forgotten 

 by the lover of nature. 



Leaving the State Highway at Madera, we struck off through 

 the foothills on the Yosemite Road. About five miles west of 

 Raymond I made my first find of Epiphragmophora tudiculata 

 var. cypreophila in rock piles near the road. By the amount of 

 effort it takes to find these it seems to be rather a rare species. 



At the old mining camp of " Coarse Gold " we stopped for 

 lunch and a few Physa diophana Tryon were found in the near- 

 by stream. Our stop for the night was at "Fish Camp," a 

 most beautiful spot, situated in one of the many Sierra meadows, 

 and headquarters for a large logging camp near by. A diligent 

 search was unrewarded by any molluscan species whatever. 

 However at Wawona, our next stop, I had better luck. 



About half a mile south of the hotel is a small springy 

 meadow on a gently sloping hillside. Here under sticks were 

 five live Vertigo ovata Say ; Succinea stretchiana Bid. and Pisid- 

 ium, all " side by each ;" a few of the very rare Vitrea or Euco- 

 nulus cherdnella Dall were also found here with Eucomdus fidvus 

 var. alaskensis Pils. A search of the upper end of the north 

 meadow resulted in some fine large Polygyra loricata Gld. and 

 Vitrina alaskana Dall, also a single specimen each of Vertigo 

 modesta var. castanea Sterki and Striatura milium var. riie)id'ionalis 

 P. &F. 



While in the Yosemite, a hike was taken to Vernal Falls, 

 and on exploring rock slides near there a few specimens of EpL 

 tudiculata var. tularensis Hemp, were found in company with a 

 flattened form of Epi. hillebrandi which Dr. Pilsbry considers 

 new. In the thick moss near the Falls a few Vitrrna alaskana 

 Dall had their happy homes. In a small meadow about 

 twenty miles from Yosemite on the Big Oak Flat Road, some 

 fine Pyramidida cronkheiti Newc. were living under small logs 

 in company with two Pisidium and a Sphaerium. 



After our two delightful days at Wawona and the Mariposa 

 Grove of giant Sequoias, and four more in the Yosemite, we 

 took the Big Oak Flat Road out of the Valley as far as Crockers, 

 where the Tioga road leads over the pass into the Mono Lake 

 country and Western Nevada. One crosses the pass at an 



