104 Transactions. 
Mr Taylor, malacology in Scotland is not “done to death,” to say 
the least. There are only some three or four counties from which 
reports were sent in, and these of the most meagre description. 
In our own district there have already been good workers, Dr 
Buchanan White, Mr Rimmer, Mr R. Service, and others. To 
Dr B. White, I believe, we owe the first actual record, printed 
fifteen years ago (Sept., 1870) in ‘“ M‘Diarmid’s Handbook of 
Southwick and Colvend,” for which Rev. J. Fraser wrote the 
botanical chapter. In the list of L. and F. W. Mollusks 
there given Dr White records thirty-six species, adding 
“that probably more than a dozen other species inhabit the 
district.” His record contains—Arion ater, L. agrestis, and 
marginatus (three out of the fourteen slugs known as British), 
S. putris, V, pellucida, seven species of Zonites, eight Helices, 
Z. lubrica, C. rugosa, B. perversa, P. cylindracea and Anglica, 
V. edentula, only two Planorbes, albus and contortus, Ph. fonti- 
nalis, Limnea lacustris, truncatula, and palustris, A. fluviatilis, 
the decollated form of B. tentaculata, V. piscinalis, and Sph. 
corneum, with the yellow variety, flavescens. 
In this list there are seven species which I have not yet come 
upon, while additionally to it I have found Pisediwm fontinale and 
pusillum, M. margaritifer, Valvata cristata, Planorbus nautileus, 
and spirorbis, Ancylus lacustris, Zonites purus, H. aspersa, 
concinna, and Carychium minimum. 
In addition to all these, I subjoin the following names, which 
have been recorded for the district by other workers :—Pisidiwm 
amnicum and nitidum , Anodonta cygnea; Planorbis nitidus 
and complanatus ; Limnea stagnalis ; Succinea oblonga ; Helix 
lamellata, sericea, and ericetorum ; Bulimus acutus and obscurus,; 
Pupa ringens and marginata; Vertigo pygmea and pusilla ; 
Cochlicopa tridens and Acme lineata, 
I am unable to mention localities for the above nineteen 
mollusks, since their names appear simply thus towards the close 
of Maxwell’s “ Guide to the Stewartry ”—in a list compiled by 
Mr Service from various sources. There are, therefore, just 60 
species recorded of land and fresh water mollusks belonging to 
the S.W. of Scotland. Any attempt to allocate them to the 
three counties or to compile a census from them is unhappily at 
present impossible. This must be left to time and to our own 
care and interest in the subject. A few words respecting the 
comparative or rather relative rarity and abundance of the species 
