82 THE NAUTILUS. 
Yearly dues are payable in December, and promptness in this re- 
spect will be appreciated by the officers of the Chapter. 
The annual election of officers occurs on the last Wednesday in 
December. Officers to be elected are the President and General 
Secretary. Write the names of your choice for these two officers, 
and send them to the General Secretary. The present incumbent 
for the last named office declines re-election, and would suggest that 
the office be filled by a member east of the Rocky Mountains. 
EXTRACT FROM A NOTE BOOK. 
[Extract from the report of Mrs. M. F. Bradshaw. From the Transactions of the 
Isaac Lea Conchological Chapter for 1895.] 
A pleasant ride through beds of wild flowers, sweeping miles of 
barley, or golden avenues of mustard, brought us to the seashore at 
Newport, Orange County, California. Here begins a peninsula of 
several miles in length, and in width but a narrow strip of sand, 
formed by the bay, into which empties the Santa Ana River. Our 
destination was down this strip some three miles from the little 
town. 
The road was on the bay side, and low sand dunes, covered with 
wild flowers we had never seen before, lay on one side, on the other 
the muddy shores of the bay, literally covered with Cerithidea cali- 
fornica. 
In the afternoon we drove down the hard beach on the ocean side 
of this narrow peninsula for a mile or more, then crossed over the 
low dunes to a little “lake” made by the receding tide leaving the 
sand, or rather mud, dry all around this little depression. Here 
was our hunting ground. We proceeded to dig in the mud for live 
shells and, to my surprise, brought out not only clams and scallops 
but Naticas and Muricide. And here I found my first Nassa tegu- 
la. While Cerethidea laid high and dry and apparently dead, 
acres and miles of them, the Nassas kept under the edge of the 
water, walked about quite lively, and when disturbed went quickly 
down into the soft mud and out of sight. 
Chorus belcheri had been taken out of that pond in numbers, but 
M.S. had exhausted the supply before we came, There were a 
