84 THE NAUTILUS. 



chosen school collections were given by her to educational institu- 

 tions and public schools. In the course of her travels she frequently 

 obtained new or rare specimens which she shared with cordial pleas- 

 ure with those students to whom tliey were of special interest. Her 

 last contribution of tliis kind was tlie SonoreUa Wo/cottiana from 

 Palm Springs, in the desert region of southeastern California. Phil- 

 anthropic work also claimed much of her attention, to which she 

 brought a mind clear and sensible, broadened by experience of many 

 years at home and in distant countries. Mrs. Wolcott was the 

 daugiier of Joseph and Eleanor Eustis, of Boston, and the widow of 

 the late John W. Wolcott. Slie leaves a son and two daughters, be- 

 sides many, not bound by ties of relationship, yet who will remember 

 her as a friend, benefactor, or co-laborer AV. H. D, 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Shei>ls ok Douglas Co., Central Washington. — Prof. R. 

 E. Snodgrass collected a small series of shells at Grand Coulee, Blue 

 Lake, in July, 1902, comprising the following species. 



" Pyramidula," strigosa GId. Planorbis trivolvis var. liorni 



(small var.). Tryon. 



Agriolimax campestris Binn. Planorbis parvus Say. 



Succinea nuttalliana Lea. Physa triticea Lea. 



Succinea gabbi Tryon. Pisidium com[)ressum Prime, 



Limntea nuttalliana Lea. Pisidium sp. undet. 



Limnaia adelinae Tryon. 



Limniea near sumassi Bd. 



This locality must be near or at the western limit of P. strigosa. 

 Specimens are in the coll. of the Washington Agricultural College 

 at Pullman, Wash., and tliat of the Academy at Philadelphia — H. 

 A. Pilsbry. 



ScHiSMOPE uiMULOiDES (Cpr.) at San Dieyo. — This species was 

 described by Carpenter as a Scissurellu, from Wazathin. Li examin- 

 ing some specimens sent some years ago as " Vunikoro ? " by Henry 

 Hemphill, 1 found that they were the species named above. I do 

 not know that this genus has been reported from California hitherto. 

 — Pilsbry. 



