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materials he has described Halifax, Temple and Newcastle as vividly as if 

 he had lived with them in Holland house. It is to be feared however 

 that Macaulay's love of producing striking pictures has led him occasionally 

 into exaggeration. 



Macaulay was constitutionally weak, and he had only reached the 

 pinnacle of fame by the publication of his history when his health began 

 to fail. In 1856 he resigned his seat in parliament, and in the following 

 year at the recommendation of Lord Palmerston he was created a peer of 

 the realm. He was the first who was made a peer merely for his literary 

 abilities, and no man more merited the honour. The honour so well 

 deserved, and given with the approbation of all his coimtrymen, was after 

 all merely nominal for he died at the close of the year 1859. He was 

 buried in Westminster Abbey, in the Poets corner on the 9th January, 

 1866. Here Macaulay loved to sit and muse on the memories of the 

 great ones who lie there — and he had often expressed a hope that among 

 them he might be interred. 



FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF HALIFAX 



The nomenelature here adopted is that of Mr. Gwyn Jefferys, in his 

 recent work on British Conchology. In all cases, unless otherwise speci- 

 fied, the localities are verified by the writer, and specimens from each, are 

 now in his cabinet. 



Sphcerium cornewn. Salterhebble basin, and other weedy parts of 

 the canal. 



Sphoenim ovale (S. pallidum, Gray). I am told that this species 

 has been met with several times near Brighouse. Can any of oiu: con- 

 chologists verify this ? 



S. lacustre. Common in a stagnant ditch, known as a part of the 

 old canal (this locality is now destroyed); Canal Stern Mills. 



Pisidiun fontinale, var. cinerea. Ditch on the road to Brighouse. 



P. pusillum. Ditch near Railway-bridge, Stern Mills. 



P. nitidum. Pond, Willow Lodge (1855). 



Anodonta cygnea. Salterhebble basin, abundant. 



