bullen: recent and holocene shells from srAiN. ;313 



As a question in economic malacology the point is at all events 

 worthy of notice, quite apart from the insertion of shell implements, 

 or shells, as ornaments amid the funeral furniture at such widely 

 separate epochs as these notes cover. As only single valves of 

 bivalves have been observed, perhaps we have only dead shells to 

 deal with, treasured as amulets or ornaments. 



One noticeable point, though merely of negative value as the 

 evidence is incomplete, is the non-occuiTence of Helix aspersa in the 

 Roman tombs. 



My sincere thanks are due to Mr. George Bonsor for entrusting 

 me with his shells to name ; to Miss D. M. A. Bate for collecting 

 the Cretan mollusca, at my request ; to them both for notes of 

 localities (many of the Spanish localities I have seen for myself 

 under Mr. Bonsor's guidance) ; and also to Mr. E. A. Smith for 

 access to the Cretan and Spanish collections in the British Museum, 

 to him and Mr. R. Bullen Newton for help in identifying the critical 

 specimens, and to Mrs. Bullen for help in boxing and labelling the 

 specimens for the purposes of this paper. 



Mr. Bonsor's specimens will be returned to the museum at Carmona. 



Note. — O.D. signifies Ordnance Datum, i.e. the position of mean 

 high-water mark. 



