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Section I.—Marine Shells of the Southeastern Coast, Mr. J. J. 
White, Rockledge, Fla. 
Mr. J. J. White, the popular proprieter of White’s Cottage, Rock- 
ledge, Fla., makes the following generous offer to our chapter mem- 
bers. He will send Strombus pugilis or Cardium isocardia, or both 
if desired, to any member of the Chapter who will send stamps for 
their postage. This offer holds good until his stock of them is ex- 
hausted. 
The name and address of a new member, Miss Lena L. Perrine, 
B. A., Valley City, N. D., was unavoidably crowded out of the Jan- 
uary issue of Tor NAvTILUs. 
MY SNAILERY. 
[Report of MissC. Soper. From the Transactions of the Isaac Lea Concho logical 
Chapter for 1895. ] 
Partly from choice, partly from necessity, I have followed the 
suggestion given by one of the members in last year’s “ Transactions,” 
and have studied the shell life found in my “ain countree,” and I 
want to tell some of the members who live far from the sea-shore, 
what delightful possibilities there are collecting and studying shells 
at home. 
With the exception of a couple of weeks spent at Santa Barbara 
last summer, I have had no opportunity for collecting ocean shells, 
and as my “ finds,” at that place were very meagre, being confined 
to some live Chama exogyra, and a queer little slipper shell, I should 
have no report to give were it not for my family of snails, which I 
have had for nearly a year. 
Last February, I found in an old cactus stump near Gabriel about 
120 dead specimens of Helix tudiculata—7 or 8 large ones, the re- 
mainder being above a half of an inch in diameter. One or two 
small live ones were found, and they were treasured carefully in an 
old flower pot which was kept in a saucer of water. A little later 
the sexton of the cemetery, whose interest I had enlisted, found 
for me a fine large specimen of H. tudiculata near one of the hy- 
drants. This was a large addition to my small family, which had 
already become the object of a great deal of attention from myself 
and others. * * * In March, in company with a friend, I went to 
the Arroyo Seco, near Pasadena, in search of helices. My friend 
had found their home one day when she was digging ferns, and 
learning of my desire to find some live snails, kindly piloted me to 
the place. 
