Toe Nawericus. 
War, 2618 FEBRUARY, 1899. No. 10. 
COLLECTING SHELLS IN THE KLONDIKE COUNTRY. 
BY P. B. RANDOLPH 
We left Seattle, Wash, on August 1, 1897, for the Klondike gold 
fields. Our first stop was made at New Metaketta, Duncan’s Island, 
Alaska. We only made a short stop here to take on water. I made 
a rush for shore, and, in a short time, had collected a few each of Cir- 
cinaria sportella hybrida Anc., Circinaria vancouverensis Lea and Poly - 
gyra columbiana Lea. These were found under the logs and boards 
just above high tide mark. No further stop was made until we reached 
Dyea, at the head of Lynn canal. From here we had to be our own 
pack-horses to the lakes. The Dyea valley is heavily timbered and 
the narrow bottom land covered with alder. We laid over one day, 
about half-way to the Dyea cafion, and [ improved the time collecting 
the small species found there, consisting of Pyramidula striatella 
cronkhitei Newe., very plentiful under dead leaves and sticks, Conulus 
Julvus alaskensis Pils., Punctum conspectum Bld., and Pupa decora 
Gould. This last was very plentiful, and I think that in one day’s 
faithful collecting I could supply the cabinets of the world. 
Packing 100 pounds over a pass 3,000 feet high did not tend to 
arouse my conchological ambition, but at each stop I prospected the 
dead leaves and sticks with varying success. 
We laid over one day at Lake Linderman, resting from the past 
week’s hard work, and I had time to hunt over the flat at the head of 
the lake, where a small stream empties in. Here I found several dead 
shells of the Vitrina exilis Morel., and was despairing of finding any 
alive, but at the last moment found three under a small dead stick. 
These were the first of this genus that I had ever seen alive, and I felt 
