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Arapahoe Glacier Trip 1906

Aug 31, 1906 August 31, 1906 Friday

Left Boulder Boulder, Colorado at 9:30 a.m. on narrow guage (sic) accompanied by Sievert Rohwer, Mrs. Cockerell, Prof. Daniels, of ((left blank)), Miss McCoy, Miss Sheldon and her father. Clear morning but clouds more or less by traintime. Stormed after leaving Bluebird mine Bluebird Mine, Colorado. Reached Eldora Eldora, Colorado at 1 p.m, got dinner at Gold Miner Hotel Gold Miner Hotel, Colorado, then went up gulch collecting mollusca mollusca. Found Zonitoides arboreus Zonitoides arboreus very abundant under logs in quaking aspens Populus tremuloides, a few Vitrina pfeifferi Vitrina pfeifferi, some Vallonia cyalophorella Vallonia cyalophorella, one juvenile Agriolimax Agriolimax, probably the black form of campestris Agriolimax campestris. At Hessie Hessie, Colorado found quite a number of Pisidium sp. Pisidium, varying from nearly central beaks to posterior beaks, covered with iron rust and very closely resembling the sand in which they are found. It threatened storm during