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niger from the same place at the same time. He sent me the 

 latter, and a couple of examples of the Helix. 



40. WATER-SHELLS IN LOCH TAY. I am indebted to Mr. 

 Thomas Scott, F.L.S., for a gathering of shells from the east end 

 of Loch Tay, collected on the nth of September 1893. It in- 

 cludes Valvata piscinalis, Pisidium pusilluin and var. obtusale, which 

 constitute new records for the vice-county of Mid-Perth, as well as 

 P. million = roseum, P. fontinale, and Limncea peregra, which have 

 already been placed on record for that division. The specimens 

 sent are fairly numerous, and, by Mr. Scott's kindness, they have 

 passed into the cabinet of the Conchological Society. The Mid- 

 Perth list now amounts to 46 species, as authenticated by specimens 

 seen by the Society's referees, and doubtless there are many more 

 to add as the results of the labours of the active conchologists of 

 the city of Perth, should we be able to enlist their assistance. 



41. NEW RECORDS FOR PEEBLESSHIRE. To the Rev. William 

 Turner of Edinburgh, the Conchological Society is indebted for 

 examples added to its collection, of seven species collected at West 

 Linton, a Peeblesshire village at the foot of the Pentland Hills, 

 and lying about 800 feet above sea-level, four of which are new 

 authentications for the county, and are marked with an asterisk ('). 

 Helix f u sea was found sparingly among damp herbage beside the 

 Lyne, a stream running through the village, and it has also been 

 found at Leadburn, a few miles towards the east. In an old quarry oc- 

 curred * Splicer him lacustre plentifully, and * Pisidium miliuin sparingly. 

 "'Helix arbustorum, of which immature examples were sent, was 

 scarce. On an adjoining slope to West Linton, and about 200 feet 

 higher than it, were found several specimens of Vertigo edentnla 

 and * V. substriata, and Pupa cylindracea commonly. Several other 

 species were collected by Mr. Turner, which were not sent, other- 

 wise there would have been four other new records to add to those 

 mentioned above. The Peeblesshire list now amounts to 40 

 species. 



42. EIGG SHELLS : NEW RECORDS FOR THE VICE-COUNTY 

 EBUDES NORTH. The Conchological Society's cabinet is indebted 

 to the Rev. John M'Murtrie, D.D., of Edinburgh, for full sets of the 

 land and freshwater mollusca of the island of Eigg. These form 

 the subject of two papers in which fully detailed information is given 

 as to their habitats and distribution. The first paper on " Eigg 

 Shells" was published in the "Journal of Conchology" for October 



1892, pp. 113-119, and the second in the same journal for April 



1893, pp. 189-191. It will be unnecessary here to do more than 

 give the list of species recorded (omitting the varieties), marking 

 those which are new authentications for the vice-county with the 

 usual asterisk. The " Eigg Shells" then are *Arion ater, *A. 



