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MUSEUM NOTES. 



I.— PLEISTOCENE NON-MARINE MOLLUSC A FROM 

 WAL TON- ON- T HE-NAZE. 



[The small collection of MoUusca described in the following 

 notes has been kindly arranged and collated by Mr. Webb, and was 

 exhibited at the meeting of the Club at Birch Hall, near Colchester, 

 on June 23rd, 1894. It is intended from time to time to print 

 " Notes " of this nature, descriptive of various specimens or collec- 

 tions in or added to the museum, as they may be determined or 

 arranged. Such details will be interesting as records of our 

 collections, and will afford valuable data for the future compilation 

 of a catalogue of the museum. — Ed.] 



n^HE shells now catalogued were collected by the late John Brown, 

 F.G.S., of Stanway, and were presented by him many years 

 ago to the " Essex and Chelmsford Museum." On the handing over 

 of the museum to the Essex Field Club, the specimens were taken 

 from the midst of a collection in which they had been inserted with 

 other pleistocene shells from Copford, and where they were at the 

 tender mercies of two large Echini from the chalk which rolled over 

 them on the slightest provocation. The series under consideration 

 was easily distinguished from the Copford specimens owing to its 

 having been mounted on cards in trays, whereby also it had escaped 

 somewhat from the roving Echini, while the others, merely glued on 

 to wooden tablets, were in most cases completely pulverised. Many 

 Walton shells were found intact in the trays under their respective 

 cards, and help was obtained from a printed slip (though where it 

 was published, if at all, has not yet been ascertained), giving a list of 

 the species, and stating that they were found "with the fossil horns 

 above at a part of the Essex coast five miles southward of Walton 

 Naze." 



The writer has carefully worked through the specimens, and has 

 had the benefit of the opinion of his friend Mr. B. B. Woodward, 

 F.G.S., who has specially given his attention to Pleistocene 

 Mollusca. The list will now stand as follows : — 



GASTROPODA. 



FULMONATA. 

 Stylomatophora. 

 Helix pulchella, Miill. 

 H. nemoralis, Linn. 



