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Qo / HELIX POMATIA. 
Shells, 1858). Near Marford Bridge, Wheathampstead, by the roadside towards 
Welwyn, W.S. A. Griffith. Hitchin, 1873, C. Ashford. In chalk-pit, and on rail- 
way side near Westmill station, Buntingford. An empty shell found in Verulam 
Woods, St. Albans (C. F. Leighton, Field, Dee. 1901, p. 950). Chalkpit, Gallows 
Hill, Hertford, 1904! A. G. Stubbs. Locally abundant near Hatfield, and ocea- 
sionally found at Hemel Hempstead (G. E. Bullen, Trans. Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc., 
1907, p. 12). In overgrown chalk pits, Standon ; and at Upwick Green, Farnham 
(E. G. Ingold, Essex Nat., 1890, p. 216). 
Oxford—Not uncommon, especially about Woodstock and Bladen (Da Costa, 
Brit. Coneh., 1778, p. 71). 
In a chalkpit between Handborough and Stonesfield (J. Dalton, Nat., 1855, 
p- 201). Rev. S. Spencer Pearce has collected this species though not plentifully 
ina ecopse at Combe Cliff on the outcrop of the Great Oolite and Forest Marble 
beds ; also fairly plentifully near the site of the Roman villa in the parish of North 
Leigh ; ina wood at Stockey Hole near Stonestield, and at Kiddington ; it is also 
plentiful amongst bushes and herbage about the waste slate heaps at Stonesfield, 
from which locality it was first recorded in 1853 by Rev. A. Merle Norman. Found 
abundantly in Wychwood Forest by J. F. Whiteaves in 1857; Wychwood Forest ! 
J. W. Carter, 1909. Reeorded by R. Stretch (Zool., 1855, p. 4541), and by: others as 
abundant in Charlbury Forest; and by D. Pidgeon (Q. J. of C., 1875, p. 56) as plentiful 
within narrow limits on the grassy banks of the railway eutting at Charlbury. 
In 1883 the Rey. S. Spencer Pearce recorded a large and thriving colony in the 
botanie garden at Oxford, descendants of Stonesfield specimens imported many 
years ago. 
Bucks.—Da Costa in 1778 recorded that Sir Kenelm Digby distriluted this 
species about his residence at Gothurst near Newport Pagnel, but that they were 
not frequent there (Brit. Conch., p. 71). 
Not rare in a park at Great Marlow (H. Ulyett, Sci. Goss., 1883, p. 211). On 
the chalk downs above the village of Hambledon, South Bucks. (P. H. Stokoe, 
Nature, May 1883, p. 6). 
ANGLIA. 
Suffolk E.—In a pit at Bramford, but doubtfully indigenous, Mr. Claude Morley 
(A. Mayfield, Journ. of Conch., 1909, p. 273). Blaxball, but said not to be truly 
native, G. T. Rope. 
Suffolk W.—Mr. W. Palmer has discovered a flourishing colony in a large 
chalkpit at Rickinghall ! (A. Mayfield, Journ. of Conch., 1909, p. 273). 
Norfolk E.—Amongst ivy on walls, King’s Lynn, W. Royal Dawson. 
Cambridge—Foulmire (J. Wolley, Zool., 1847, pp. 1821-2). About Shelford 
(Mrs. McKenny Hughes, Geol. Mag., 1888, p. 206). 
Bedford—Chalk hollow near Luton, June 1868 ! W. Whitwell. 
Northampton—Said to have been introduced hy Lord Hatton into a coppice near 
his house at Kirby, but the animals all quickly died (Morton, Nat. Hist. Northants, 
1712, p. 414). 
J.C. of Loughton (Nature, May 1883, p. 31) records that from 1849-52 when living 
near Woodford he often found H. pomatia in a small wood known as Woodford 
Shrubbery. It was commonly said that General Arbuthnot formed the shrubbery, 
and brought the shells from abroad about thirty years before. 
Plentiful in 1896 about Woodford, near the spot where General Arbuthnot was 
supposed to have introduced it about fifty years ago (C. E. Wright, Journal of 
Northants. Soe., 1896, p. 61). 
SEVERN. 
Gloucester E.—Chedworth Parish and about Frog Mill (Da Costa, Brit. Conch., 
W778) Pp: a): 
Of large size in several woods, Lineover, Witcombe Wood, and Cooper’s Hill 
near Birdlip, ete. (W. Webster, Nat., 1854, p. 175). Rendcombe (J. Poe Nl. 
Cat. Brit. Shells, 1858, p. 16). Hedgebottoms about Gloucester, Oct. 1879, Rev. 
H. Milnes. Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenham, May 1887 ! and one specimen 
close to the Roman villa at Chedworth near Gloucester, where many shells have 
been dug up among the Roman implements, I. H. Burkill. Plentiful at Chedworth, 
J. R. B. Masefield. 
Gloucester W.—Rare at Stapleton, Mr. J. S. Miller (Ann. of Phil., 1822, p. 379). 
Mr. J. W. Cundall has also found it on the Cotswolds near Gloucester. 
