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336 HELIX HORTENSIS. 
In Surrey, the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen found specimens at a depth ot 
from three to four feet in the Horseshoe Pit, Colley Hill, Reigate. 
In South Essex, Mr. B. B. Woodward has recorded the finding of speei- 
mens showing the formule 12345, 1(23)45, 1(2345), and 00000 in the’ 
shell-marl disclosed by the excavations for the reservoir of the East London 
Waterworks at Walthamstow; Mr. R. Miller Christy has noted the species 
from the shell-marl, black-earth, and peat-layers of the river Cann, about 
Chignal St. James ; and Mr. J. French in the alluvium at Felstead. 
In Hertfordshire, it was discovered by Mr. J. Hopkinson in the alluvial 
marl deposit of the old bed of the river Colne exposed by the excavations 
for the gas works at Watford. 
In Middlesex, Mr. J. E. Cooper reports it from the shell-bed and from 
the superimposed brick-earth disclosed by the excavations near the gas 
works, Staines. 
In East Gloucester, it is recorded by Mr. Kennard from the dirt band 
of probably old soil, and the surface “ tip” of the quarry at Cleeve Hill. 
In Hereford, Boycott and Bowell report its presence in a fluviatile deposit 
near Ledbury Church, on the authority of Mr. Ballard. 
In Stafford, it is reported from the alluvium of the Cocker Beck, a 
tributary of the Trent, by Mr. Clement Reid. 
In North Lincoln, Mr.J.F. Musham reports it from a deposit at Greetwell. 
In Mid West Yorkshire, it is recorded from the fluviatile deposits or 
the River Ribble at Great Mitton, by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson. 
In South Northumberland, it is recorded by Mr. A. Meek as found 
between two concrete floors exposed during the excavations of the Roman 
city of Corstopitum. 
In Cheviotland, it is recorded by Mr. G. Johnston as found in 1854 ina 
gravel-bed on Holy Island. 
In Ireland, the Rev. A. H. Delap reports its existence in a marl deposit 
near Clonmel in South Tipperary. 
In Germany, Prof. Cockerell informs me that specimens exist in the 
Basle Museum from the post-glacial diluvium of Kiffis, Upper Alsace. 
In Belgium, it is recorded by M. le Comte from Hainault in the alluvium 
of the Dendre, Denderleuw; from that of the Sambre at Landelies and 
Aulne by Van den Broeck. M. Roffiaen notes it from the deposits near 
Waremme, Liége, and at Bouillon, Luxemburg ; while M. Grégoire records 
it as Common in the ‘‘'T'ourbe,” at Uccle lez-Bruxelles, Brabant. 
In Sweden, Herr Higg records it from a black sand of boreal age 
beneath the Neolithic submarine peat deposit at Ystad, Malmohus ; and 
Herren Hagg and Odhner from Skane, Jemtland, Westergotland, Oster- 
gotland, Upland, the Island of Gothland, and Narke, in a series of beds 
which have been distinguished as Boreal, Atlantic, sub-Boreal and sub- 
Atlantic, and deposited during the gradual amelioration of the climate, 
when the greatest severity of the Glacial period had passed. 
In Denmark, Dr. Johansen has recorded it from Jutland, in the ancient 
Neolithic ‘‘kitchen-middens” at Meilgaard and Dingen, as well as from 
the marl-beds at Gytje. On Zealand it occurs in the old Neolithic deposit 
by the Free Harbour, Copenhagen ; in those near Oxnebjerg in the Island 
of Funen; and in the marl-beds of Bodilsker, Bornholm. 
In the Nearctic region, it is recorded by Dr. Dall as found in the pre- 
Columbian and pre-historic shell heaps or ‘ kitchen-middens” of the 
extreme north-east of the United States: and Rev. G. D. Reid discovered 
it in the shell-heaps on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard. 
