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were able to mountand push on, About five miles down we found a good 
camping ground—that is to say, a place where there was plenty of the 
invaluable product of the yak lying about, without which existence on most 
part of the Pamirs would be impossible. Pushing on further down the 
valley we dismounted and searched for game, and it was not long before 
Rakhmat had found 2 flock of fifty rams, while I spotted a lot of twelve in 
another direction, Unfortunately there was such a mirage that the telescope 
was almost useless, and it was impossible to judge the size of the horns, 
However, the place seemed well worth trying, and the pass was practicable 
enough with a little hard work ; so we returned to camp, intending to cross 
again with the baggage next morning, We had more snow during the night, 
and it was still snowing when we started next morning. Luckily there was 
no wind this time on the pass, and after a good deal of trouble, having to 
reload each yak two or three times, we got them all through the deep snow 
on to the good going below. Snow was now falling thick, and, when we 
arrived at the camping ground we had selected, the yak dung I had been so 
pleased to see the day before was completely buried. The amount of fuel 
we were able to collect that evening did not run to more cooking than a cup 
of tea apiece, and after this and a piece of cold mutton I was glad to turn 
into my sleeping bag. 
Next day it cleared up, and we went after the O, poli, but were much disap- 
pointed to find, after spending a day stalking them; that the large flock did 
not contain a head over 50in, That evening we had more bad weather, and it 
was nearly a week before I wasable to examine the smaller flock, which I 
found also no good. After searching the rest of the nullahs round about and 
finding nothing shootable, I recrossed the pass A. Le M.B. in “ The Field.” 
(To be continued), 
No, XVIIL—LAND MOLLUSCA. 
The following extract from the President's address to the Malsscleaia 
Society, delivered by Lieut-Col. H. H. Godwin- Austin, F.R.S., &c., 
the 10th February, 1899, throws more light on the peculiarities of two oe 
species which are referred to in Mr. Blanford’s “ Note on the Land Mollusca 
of Bombay,” published on page 326 in Vol. XII of the Society’s Journal :— 
“Thave failed to find among any Macrochlamys- like shells of Penin: 
sular India the exact similarity of anatomical detail so typical of the 
genus; there are many shells in this part of India which, up to the present; 
are included in it, among them being M. pedina and M, platychlamys 
from Bombay. The first-named I include in section D of Macrochlamys, Tt 
has both the right and left shell lobes, but the former is extremely rudiment- 
ary, and, judging from analogy and its reduced size in spirit, it cannot 
be largely protrusible in life. The male organ has become altered in form, 
its most interesting feature being the replacement of the many-coiled dis¢ | 
