y8 The Irish Naturalist. May, 



Note by R. A. Phillips. 



The evidence that Limnaea glabra lives or Kved in the 

 neighbourhood of Cork is unsatisfactory and incomplete, 

 and Mr. Jackson's note, though interesting, leaves the 

 matter still in doubt. 



Jeffreys, in 1831 [Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xvii., p. 520), 

 stated that it was found in " Ireland (Rev. James Bulwer)," 

 but gave no locality. William Thompson, apparently 

 doubtful, wrote Bulwer and Jeffreys. Bulwer replied that 

 the " shell so noticed was considered by him to be but a 

 variety of L. pahistris." Jeffreys replied in a letter dated 

 8th June, 1840, that he had recorded the shell on the 

 authorit}' of " the late Dr. Goodall," who had received the 

 shells from Mr. Bulwer. He also added in his letter, " I 

 have, however, two or three undoubted specimens among a 

 collection of Irish shells which I purchased from Mr. John 

 Humphreys of Cork — the tray which contained them was 

 labelled " Cork." 



Thompson next wrote to Humphre3^s, who replied that 

 he had not identified the species, but that the note of locahty 

 appended to the shells alluded to by Mr. Jeffreys was 

 strictly correct. 



Humphreys, in his list of Cork mollusca, published 1845, 

 records L. glabra as—" Found once near Cork, I believe 

 near Blarney," a very indefinite statement, considering his 

 reply to Jeffreys. In an old manuscript list of Cork shells 

 which I have seen it is stated that Mr. Humphreys could 

 not remember where he had found this species. The old 

 records for Dublin and Belfast are not supported by the 

 existence of specimens or other satisfactory evidence. 



During and since Humphreys' time many conchologists 

 have collected in the neighbourhood of Cork, but none seem 

 to have found L. glabra there or elsewhere in Ireland. 

 Whether the shells alluded to by Jeffreys were really collected 

 near Cork, or whether they might have got transferred by 

 accident or otherwise from one tray to another, does not 

 seem clear from the above history. It is, therefore, to be 

 regretted that the label on the specimens in the De Tabley 



