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` Gould. fiid river above the falls. Also found in Spokan ee 
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desired, as well as the thanks of the Academy. We shall from time to 
time call attention in the Narurarisr to the progress and results of 
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this expedition. —F. W. PUTNAM, Director, Peabody Academy of Science. 
THE SHELLS OF MONTANA. Helix Townsendiana Lea. — Numerous small 
specimens were found in the dry prairie at the junction of Hell Gate and 
Bitterroot rivers, and as I found larger ones of various sizes in more | 
damp situations of the woods, from an elevation of 4,800 feet down to 
2,200, at the west base of the Bitterroot range, I presume this is a dwarfed 
variety, such as is found also west of the Coast Mountains, in Washing- 
ton Territory. Itis the most wide-spread species I have seen there. 
` Triođopsis Mullani Bland & Cpr. —A single dead specimen, of a beat- 
tiful aeaeaie yellow, resembling H. tridentata in size and form, I 
found here er a stone, and afterwards found ip sma FI numbers at the 
west side J? tie Bi meien crossing, forty miles d 
aaNet H polyg gis Bld. & Cpr.— This bokati little one-toothed 
fou 
species d common on the Cœur g Aleñe Mountains, especially their . 
east anrd maniing moss and decaying wood in the dampest part of the 
spruce for 
aipetaien ‘Cooperi W. J. B.— This fine species I found only on the east 
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season (Aug. 10) I presume I could find none moving about, and but one 
alive. Most of them were about the roots of Geranium incisum, & species 
abundant on both slopes, but I bee for Helices in vain in the other. 
Anguispira solitaria Say (or A. Cooperi var?).—The large globose lip- 
less Helix inhabited both slopes of the Cœur d’Alefie Mountains, above 
2,500 feet patiren preferring the openings in the forest covered 
bushes and fe 
geen pre Gould.—I was always on the lookout for Helices, 
up to August 31st found none along the Bitterroot river except rarely 
m Townsendiana. That day, however, at a hill called “Half-way,” thirty 
miles below the junction, I found two additions to the list. The large? 
flattened, banded and somewhat carinated form, I Sears — under 
logs of pine on a steep shaly slope containing lime in v 
Hyalina arborea Say; Patula striatella Anth. pean in a damp bottom 
land along Hell Gate river, about 4,800 feet above the sea, living 0 ef 
here. 
Lymnea palustris Linn.; L. bulimoides Lea.; L. desidiosa Say; Physa 
heterostropha Say. — Missouri river above the falls, about 3,000 feet above 
the sea. August, 1860 
Lymnea palustris Linn. ; L. humilis Say ; Bulinus hypnorum Linn.; Physt 
heterostropha Linn. dofir Gate river, west slope of the Rocky Mountains, 
4, feet above the sea. Augus , 18 
eee trivolvis Say; P. parvus Say. — Bitterroot river. > 
herium striatinum Linn. ; Bide luteolus Lamk.; Margarit 
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