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ject during the Chautauqua Assembly at Long Beach, Cal. Though 
unfortunately, not a member of his class, some of my friends were 
enthusiastic students under him, and through them, the enthusiasm 
or “ craze,’ as we somtimes call it, was communicated to me, and [ 
very shortly became as eager a student and collector as my circum- 
stances would allow. Happily for me, my husband shared my in- 
interest, and most of our collecting has been done together, and 
many of my choicest treasures were found by him in places I could 
not venture—in places where the waves dashed too high for my 
courage, or under rocks too heavy for my strength to lift. So this 
report must be understood as a record of our joint work. 
In the winter of ’93 and ’94, we made a number of visits to Long 
Beach and San Pedro, going as far as Alamitos Bay in one direc- 
tion and nearly to the old wharf beyond Times’ Point at San Pedro. 
We collected quantities of shells, but as it would be impossible and 
unprofitable to mention them all, I will speak only of the rarer ones. 
Under the rocks at Dead Man’s Island, we found, on our first 
trip, a number of specimens of each of the following varieties : 
Volvarina varia, Terebratella transversa, and Lazaria subquadrata. 
We also dug a number of fine fossil pectens out of the bank. One 
of the choicest shells found by us that day has never been fully iden- 
tified by me. By some it is called Cerostoma foliatum, by others 
Murez trialatus.' At any rate it isa rare and interesting shell, and I 
have never seen another like it. On another trip up the beach above 
San Pedro we found, by digging in the sand with a trowel, some 
fine specimens of Stenoradsia magdalenensis, the largest Chiton on 
this part of the coast. 
We also found several Hinnites giganteus Gray, Cumingia califor- 
nia Conr., Lucapina crenulata Sby., and a fine old Mitra maura 
Swains., two iaches in length, of which we are justly proud. In the 
spring of ’94 we were on a visit in Ventura County, and when our 
friends proposed a trip to the beach, we interposed no objections. 
They drove to Punta Gorda, meaning Point of Rocks, most ap- 
propriately named, for I have seldom seen such a bed of rocks jut- 
ting out so boldly into the sea. They were literally covered with 
the largest species of mussels, many of them being nearly, if not, six 
inches in length. In the sheltered places in these rocks we found 
quantities of Purpura saxicola Val. and Monoceros lapilloides Conr. 
Our patient search in the rock pools was rewarded by our finding 
Opalia crenatoides Cpr. 
1 The shell proved to be Pterorhytis trialatus Shy. 
