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STURGEON IN EDEN. 



On April 17th, 1886, a Sturgeon was caught by the salmon nets 

 at the Cargo fishery, and weighed between nine and ten stone. 



W. Duckworth. 



PORPOISE. 



A Porpoise caught at Skinburness on May 6th, was four feet in 

 length, two feet seven inches in circumference, and weighed about 

 seventy pounds. 



W. Duckworth. 



NOTES ON THE LAND AND FRESH-WATER 

 SHELLS OF CUMBERLAND. 



In the list of Land and Fresh-water Shells given in Part VII. of 

 the Transactions^ p. 54, Plaftorbis vortex, L., is recorded as being 

 found near Stanwix. The examination of a greater number of 

 specimens from the same locality has convinced me that the shells 

 are not F. vortex, but merely a thin and flattened variety of 

 P. spirorbis, MiilL, which passes into the ordinary form. Through 

 the kindness of Mr. Maddison, I have been enabled to examine a 

 large series of specimens of the two species from the neighbourhood 

 of Birmingham. 



The two bleached specimens of Clausllia, from High Gelt 

 Woods, referred to on p, 60 loc. cit. as C. laminata, Mont., I find 

 on closer examination, and comparison with other shells, to be 

 C. rugosa, var. dubia ; the imperfect state of their preservation led 

 to the error in their identification. 



The number of species hitherto found is seventy-eight ; and 

 though the name of P. vortex must now be omitted, the total 

 number remains the same, through the addition of P. carinatus, 

 and there is one additional variety. 



