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him, he does his duty; if left without employment from others, 
he finds out work for himself; he runs a laundry; he fishes; he 
peddles vegetables; he hunts up rags and bones; he turns gar- 
dener, choosing all the little valleys between the sand hills, irriga- 
ting them, and raising large crops where the white man raised 
nothing ; all the time serenely confident that as long as his prices 
are lowest, he will find plenty of customers, some of the best 
of them among the very men who shout so loudly “the Chinese 
must go.” Truly, unless the government promptly pass some 
law to restrain the Chinamen from free access to these shores, 
the poor white man even if sober and industrious, will soon find 
life growing very hard, for what chance has he, with his ideas of 
comparative luxury in house, food and clothing, probably a wife 
and family, and often some intellectual tastes also, against a rival 
who lives in an unfloored hut, feeds on rice, stuffs his blouse with 
hay when the weather is cold, has only himself to keep, and never 
troubles his head about literature, science, or politics, yet all the 
time keeps a keen eye on the main chance, earning and keeping 
every cent he can, and scarcely ever resting from labor except for 
the needful sleep. : 
Note.—In my last paper I referred the Planorboid shell found in Mountain lake, 
S. F., to the genus He/isoma, but I find it to be a genuine Planorbis. The tiny little 
flat shell from the same pond is Menetus opercularis. Prof. Verrill has informed me 
that the small starfish mentioned as probably new is the Asterias equalis of Stimpson. 
It is rare and local in this neighborhood. 
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SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CENTRAL ZOO- 
GEOGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF THE UNITED 
STATES} 
BY A. S. PACKARD, JR. 
ie recent studies on the extent of the native breeding places of 
the Rocky Mountain locust, my attention, while in the field 
and afterwards in working up some of the results then obtained, 
has been directed to some of the faunal characteristics of the 
Central province ; my own observations bearing especially on the 
distribution of certain insects and especially the Phyllopod 
Crustacea, whose distribution west of the Mississippi presents some 
points of considerable interest. 
a 1 Read at the last April meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Washing- 
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