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After dinner Mr. Lucy, who, in the absence of the President, 

 occupied the chair, called the attention of the Club to a 

 communication he had recently received from Mr. John Jones, in 

 reference to some comments made by Mr. J. Gwynne Jeffreys 

 on a statement contained in Mr. Witchell's Paper on the 

 Stroud Hill deposits. Mr. Jeffreys had written to Mr. Jones 

 as follows: — 



" I observe, in the last number of the Geological Journal, that 

 Mr. Edwin Witchell, of Stroud, states on your authority that 

 Helix lamellata is not found south of Scarborough. He accord- 

 ingly draws certain conclusions from this statement, in his 

 account of a deposit at Stroud which contained this species in a 

 fossil state. You will find in the first volume of my work on 

 British Conchology, p. 175, a more southern range recorded, 

 viz. Anglesea (McAndrew) and nearly every part of Ireland. I 

 have myself taken it in the most southern extremity of Ireland. 

 I also noticed it as one of the Copford fossils. As I do not 

 know Mr. WitcheUi's address, you may commlinicate this to 

 him. Helix fulva is a species ofZonites; and Zua is now discarded 

 by Continental Naturahsts." 



The following is the reply of Mr. Jones: — 



" Bruxelles, April, 1865. 



"The enclosed note reached me some time ago from Mr, 

 Jeffreys, but I was at the time too busy to notice it. It is 

 well for the Club to know that some exception has been taken 

 to my statements, although I cannot see in what way my 

 argument is controverted. I. give certain recorded English 

 localities in which a given moUusk occurs in the living state, at 

 present; and I particvdarly describe a locaUty in which I found 

 it dead and sub-fossil, and where no one pretends to have found 

 it living. From all the information to be obtained from con- 

 tinental works, as well as from those of our own coimtry, the 

 only conclusion to be arrived at is that it once occupied a naore 

 extensive area than at present, and is now dying out, e.g. it is 

 no more found living at Grey's, in Essex, than at Stroud HiU, 

 although found abundantly at both places in the fossil or sub- 

 fossil state. Unless we accept these facts as they come before 



