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breath ! After a while, C. and J. being in advance, they called to 

 E. and I that the trail was not so bad after all. We slid down, or, 

 jumped down, as loose dirt or stones were under our feet, and, 

 sooner than we hoped for, we were on the rocky beach l)elo\v. 

 Almost at the top of the cliff I had found, in the sandy rock, the 

 A emcea patina ; and the first shell I found on tlie wet rocks, was a 

 live Acmoia patina, Esch.! On a great mossy bed of solid stone 

 about 40 feet square I found the Conus Californicus, Hds. so thick, 

 I was reminded of wild strawberry picking in my younger days. 

 The Conus iu almost every instance was partly hidden in the wet 

 moss. Kear this mossy carpet three Ct/prcea (Luponia) spadicea, 

 Gray, were found by C. and J. If the collecting of the Conus 

 reminded me of picking strawberries, the Luponia iu his shell with 

 his red mantle dotted with bright yellow dots, was a huge strawberry 

 himself! From under him rose his thin mantle until it almost 

 covered his glossy shell. The shell shaded brown and drab, with a 

 suggestion of the blue of the sky between the two colors, the trans- 

 parent mantle, so gaily dotted with yellow, rising up over the 

 brightly colored shell until it nearly met above in a frilled border, 

 was a sight all five of us stood around and gazed at in wonder and 

 admiration ! Our delight found expression, then slowly the mantle 

 was drawn down and out of sioht." 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, for 1887- 

 1889, contains a history of the organization, and the following 

 Conchological papers: Notes on the gross anatomy of Campeloma ; 

 on a new fossil Limn?eid ; The pai-vus group of Unionidse, by 

 R. E. Call. There are also a number of papers on geology, l)otany 

 and entomology by various authors. From R. E. Call. 



Report ox the Animals of the Waters of the Mississippi 

 Bottom near Quincy, III., by H. Garman, Zool. Assist. 111. 

 State Lab. Nat. Hist. In a series of papers of which this is the 

 first, it is purposed to set forth in a general way an exhibit of the 

 animal life of the Waters of Illinois as related to fish-culture pri- 

 marily, but also and finally in relation to nature at large. The 

 present pamphlet treats of all forms of animal life observed at 

 Quincy, in August, 1888. A short list of moUusks, with notes, is 

 given on pp. 23 to 27. From S. A. Forbes, Director III. State Lab. 

 N. H. 



