QS THE “NAUTILUS 
bagged twenty Polyayra Chilhowcensis. These were fine, some pearly 
white and dentated. We also obtained a few P. appressa perigrapta 
Pils. and other good shells. There were none to throw away, for 
even the Pyramidula alternata were a beautifully ribbed variety, var. 
costifera Lewis, perhaps. 
P. Chilhoweensis is an active snail, and whenever a piece of shaded 
open woods in some level cove was found it was almost sure to be there 
in the old brush piles or around old logs and stumps. LP. perigrapta 
is a bark shell, sometimes found |in the moss upon the trunks of the 
poplar trees and basswood, but usually under the old bark of dead 
trees. We found ninety in one hour among the slabs of an old mill 
yard. The favorite-trees for snails are the basswood, buckeye and 
poplar, the latter known in other localities as tulip or white wood, 
The stumps of the latter, when damp, are covered with the small va- 
rieties of Zonites, Pupa and Strobilops. 
The next day a short trip was made to a piece of oak barrens where 
Poly. Christy was to be found among the dead leaves. Here we also 
found a beautiful rose-colored albolabris, called “ redii”’ for short, of 
about thirty mm, in width; tridentata with double teeth; Gastro’s 
intertexta, demissa and gularis ; also Omphalina Andrewsex and variety 
montivaga, Pils ; fuliginosa and. variety polita, Pils.; Helicodiscus 
jimbriatus, Wetherby; Poly. Clarki anda Strobilops 1 am waiting 
to hear what Mr. Pilsbry has to say about it. 
The third day we took our dinner pails and went further and found 
plenty of Poly. Wheatlyi and some fine stenotrema depilata Pils. It 
rained and Mr. Clapp had difficulty with a pair of rubber boots. Wet 
boots are hard on the feet. With theaid of two canes he could do but 
little more than crawl coming down the mountain. Not being very much 
acquainted with him at that time, not knowing how far to press him, 
fearing he might think I wanted to run off with his boots, he was 
punished a little more than really necessary. When he had about 
come toa standstill I persuaded him to trade for my moceasins. I then 
carried the boots upon my back to show good faith, and we rolled 
homeward with light hearts, though our feet were heavy. 
For collecting small shells Mr. Clapp had wooden pill bottles with 
wooden stoppers. For the Helices I had a small fisherman’s creel 
with a wide rubber band over the mouth, in which there was a slit. 
To turn over sticks and barks and kill rattlesnakes I had something of 
a ginseng hook made of a socket garden hoe, the blade cut down to an 
about an inch and a half in width and about four inches in length, 
