A? THE NAUTILUS. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. Epwarp W. Roper has returned from a two months trip to 
Jamaica. He reports a good time and considerable collecting. 
PURPURA SAXICOLA VaAL.—A large suite of this species recently 
presented to the collection of the American Association of Con- 
chologists by Mr. Witirarp M. Woop, shows an extraordinary 
amount of variation. Some very large examples are represented, 
the largest measuring 34 mm. alt. Others show variations from 
smooth to strongly corded. In color they vary from livid-white or 
gray; white to bright orange and to black, some being spirally 
banded with brown in the intervals between the white spiral riblets. 
The entire lot was collected in San Francisco County, Cal. 
Mr. FREDERICK STEARNS of Detroit, isin Philadelphia, working 
upon the literature of Japanese mollusks. 
A. B. Krenpic, D. D., has removed from East Orange, N. J., to 
2190 Seventh Ave., New York City. 
OBITUARY. 
Mrs. D. L. Garuick expired suddenly March 16, 1894, in San 
Francisco. She was spending the winter in Alameda, as the 
guest of her sister, Mrs. Gaylord, 2116 Central Avenue, and the two 
ladies went out to the Cliff House and vicinity yesterday to spend 
the day collecting shells. 
They climbed a precipitous height near Land’s End station on 
the line of the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad, and when she 
reached a little station on the road, they sat down for a rest. Sud- 
denly Mrs. Garlick fell forward and dropped on the floor. Upon 
trying to raise her up, Mrs. Gaylord was horrified to see that her sis- 
ter was dead. 
Weakness of the heart, aggravated by over exertion, is attributed 
as the cause of death. 
The home of the deceased was at St. Paul, Minn., and she made 
it a practice for many years to spend the winters in California, 
either in Alameda or San Diego. She had been interested in the 
collection of shells for some years. 
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