was most abundant among ae 
the shells cast up by the waves on the ‘a 
Mm ocean beach. For the last enty ; 
years this has been considered a rare “a 
ity including the ee tinctoria shell San Diego, but though not 
ae dye Se which I seen alive it must be courted as one of 
beli n Lom near e commoner shells at Lagoo ads, 
Diego, most aerthern limit of an: classed among the edible mollusks. 
natural growth. Hundreds of the delicate lamp shells 
The datile or “wild date” (Yucca (Anomia lampe) were llecte at- 
valida), fi see t ear the tached_to each other, or to other shells 
osario mission, south of San Quintin bits of wreckage, et ittle boat was 
ms the most prominent of the anchored in the lagoon with a band of 
teristic shrubs the region arl fisbers ho i und a ban 
| furn ishes in its light porous trunks of the !evely Nacre shell off the ocean 
1 used in beach, who had reaped quite a 
harvest of the pearls of the ocean. The 
San D scal ecten 
aerulsnieata and the hard Sail clam 
species) 
as | the — abundanze, as 
ney were twenty years ago in gan 
i before the gatherers for 
h ly 
eat of t thickly 
rewn with the snapping piers of the 
ca s—each ini 
op 
z Ps Fe 
The West American Scientist. 
; yellow edt 3, 
Dosinia ponderosa, which once lived co 
in great a ubace along our San Diego 
shores W Coronado was beneath 
th 
this la pees 
divers had ese brought u up a few shells 
Cyprae 
big haui of s 
so added to my cwn n cegre bill of 
On the shore I found several colonies 
u 
casionall 
elie tetanus ned ‘Dachorvies, after 
heavy , was the dark -skinned 
ns opti gs Bios earrying its 
@ needs of these sad cases. 
