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month we camped \\'ith the Sierra Club at tlie Tuolumne 

 Meadows, making side trips from there in search of snails and 

 other kinds of trout. Then eastward with our own pack train 

 for more than another month over the high passes, witli a side 

 trip to Silver Lake, down into the branches of the San Joa- 

 quin, and over the John Muir Pass to the Middle Fork of the 

 Kings River. At Tehipite valley we left the Middle Fork, 

 westward crossed the North Fork, and hit the main river at 

 Trimmer, where we left our mules and took the auto stage 

 for Sanger and Fresno. 



Out for health, and in no huny, the opportunities for col- 

 lecting were the best. The high altitudes, glaciers and snow 

 banks were another world. In the vjdleys, with a wealth of 

 flowers, birds, and trout, and the grandest scenery upon the 

 continent, we rested several days at every camping place, as a 

 rule. At Palisade creek we halted nearly a week and had 

 golden trout for every meal. 



But the snails were small, and few in number of specimens 

 and species. Riding up the zigzag out of tlie Tehipite valley 

 the silvery track of a snail was found on the trail, and in half 

 a day I dug up a dozen Epiphragmophoras, looking like E. 

 traski, the only large shell found since leaving the Yosemite. 

 Like a Sonorella, they were living in a pile of rocks well cov- 

 ered with leaves and rotten wood. 



Between trips we hunted up old friends and collections. 

 Some of these were mail-order friends of long standing, and we 

 were greatly pleased to see what they looked like. At Berke- 

 ley it was the Alaska bear skins, H. S. Swarth and Robert 

 Grinnell. At Oakland, Fred L. Button, who gave us a two- 

 night exhibition of his shells. At the Academy of Sciences, 

 Golden Gate Park, Barton W. Evermann and the Henry 

 Hemphill collection of western land shells. At the Leland 

 Stanford University, Mr, and Mrs. Oldroyd and the Hemphill 

 duplicates. At Los Angeles, the fossil bones from the asphalt 

 beds. The collections and the collectors demonstrate the Cali- 

 fornia spirit, and were far beyond our expectations. 



Tucson likewise, Thomber, Cummins, Voorhies and Taylor 

 at the University of Arizona, McDougal and Shreve at the 



