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fornia. Also Pinna oldroydi from over 100 fathoms, off Nf vport, and 

 Capulus calijornicus on Pecten hastatus, hitherto reported as com- 

 mensal only with P. diegensis. Another ballast shell from Puget 

 Sound was noted, in a specimen of Oliva angulata. 



The collection of Hermann, later the Hettrick collection, formerly 

 well-known to San Francisco collectors, and containing the largest 

 known specimen of Cancellaria cooperi, is now the property of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Golisch of Los Angeles. It offers many interesting Cali- 

 fornian and exotic shells for study. 



In Mrs. Ball's collection a fine and brightly colored series of An- 

 gulus carpenteri Dall (variegatus Cpr. not Gmelin) was especially 

 notable, as well as many other attractive and interesting local 

 species. 



Mrs. Baldridge of Los Angeles, Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. McFarren 

 of Venice, Dr. J. J. Rivers of Santa Monica and several other mem- 

 bers of the flourishing Conchological Club of Los Angeles, have 

 collections well worthy of examination. Mrs. Burton Williamson, 

 whose contributions to the conchology of the coast are well-known, 

 has given her collection to the new museum of Los Angeles where 

 it will be suitably installed when the building is completed. 



The San Francisco collectors were, without exception, the victims 

 of the fire following the recent earthquake. Those of Oakland were 

 more fortunate, and, notwithstanding the destruction caused at' 

 Stanford University by the earthquake, their collections were not 

 seriously damaged. At Stanford is the large collection made at the 

 Galapagos Islands by the expedition sent out by the California 

 Academy. It was fortunate enough to arrive in San Francisco after 

 the great disaster and when worked up by Mr. Ochsner, one of the 

 expedition, will eventually take its place in the new Museum pro- 

 jected by the Academy, for which the city has offered a site in the 

 Golden Gate Park, where the danger from fire will be almost nil. 



Prof. Raymond of the University of California is working at the 

 collection made near San Pedro, by the party directed by Prof. Ritter 

 in 1899, which contains many interesting and novel forms. Among 

 these was noticed a fine new species of Calliostoma, pure white in 

 color. A specimen of G. gloriosum from Pt. San Pedro, 12 miles 

 below the Cliff House at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, is in 

 Prof. Raymond's collection. This, is I believe, the most northerly 

 locality yet reported lor the species. 



