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running toa point. Mrs. Andrews lent us a surgeon’s hook. Mr. 
Clapp had a surgeon’s abscess syringe and I had a brush, or swab with 
a flexible handle, made by twisting small copper wire around a piece 
of sponge. Our collections were cleaned up every day and the shells 
are clean. In cooking we kept the water at a boiling point, and with 
a dipper made of wire netting boiled the large Poly. Andrews, a few 
ata time, the albolabris or Chilhoweensis 40 seconds; appressa and Fer- 
rissit 18; the Omp. Andrews 8, and Christy’ and Stenotremas 5, 
the small Zonites 3 seconds. 
The evening of this third day Mr. Clapp powdered his feet with 
talcum and the next morning was ready to go up to Thunderhead with 
a mule. Here we camped several days to recuperate, and opened a 
mine for Gastro. lamellidens. These snails are under the shingle or 
spawls of rock from one to two feet down. With these we found a 
new Gastro. about the size of Gastro. Andrews, which Mr. Pilsbry 
named “ Clappi.” It is exceedingly frail, and before we un- 
derstood this many of our few examples were broken. There will be 
only enough for Pilsbry and the National Museum this time. We 
also found it at Mirey Ridge, about twelve miles further east. 
The mules were brought up again to move us, but were so loaded 
with our camp dunnage we walked. Mrs. F. could not walk half a 
mile to the street cars at home. Mr. Clapp left us at this camp for 
home, and Mrs. F’. and I stayed another week alone and then took a 
hasty trip to Clingman’s Dome when the mules came again. It rained 
all that part of the trip and we went back to the Cove in one day in the 
rain. There were twenty miles to cover anda number of those sat 
upon edge, so they didn’t count, but Mrs. F. had her mule to ride this 
time. [only found the red and banded varieties of Po/y, Andrews and 
Ferrissii upon Clingman in the two hours I was there. I was a little 
afraid of bears and may not have looked close enough for the smaller 
varieties. 
Before leaving, Mr. Clapp helped to open a mine for Ferrissié upon 
the slope of Mirey Ridge. The shingle was soon abandoned, for we 
found the snails under heavy, damp slabs of stone from three to twenty 
feet across, piled up at the foot of slides. By cleariug away the moss 
and roots and getting light under, and by taking different angles of 
observation we could often find two or three under one roof, and oeca- 
sionally a Wheatley’, and I once found tbe new Gastrodonta. The 
young of Ferrissii were hirsute. We wore our finger nails down to 
the sore point and crawled around on the damp soil until our laay 
