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7. — Glandina and Pannacella (i plate.) The animal of 

 G. algira is figured (1316.) We are inclined to think that there 

 is more than one European species of Glandina, The figures of 

 G. algira are too green. 



I. — BuUnilnns (i plate) including the enormous B. lahrosus. 



Our readers will see how rich and varied a conchological 

 banquet is spread before them in this treble part. C. P. G. 



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SUGGESTIONS FOR FINDING THE SMALLER 

 LAND SHELLS. 



By Henry Layer, F.L.S. 



I have adopted for some time, very successfully, the follow- 

 ing plan of taking the smaller snails, and, believing that it might 

 be useful to others^ I beg to forward it to you for publication in 

 the Journal. j\Iy procedure is to take a bag to those parts of 

 the wood most likely to abound in snail life, and to collect the 

 dead leaves, grass, and other rubbish until my bag is full. This I 

 carry home and sift through a common cinder-sieve ; the broken 

 rubbish that passes through I then sift again over a cloth — an 

 empty sack will do very well — in a brisk wind, in fact I winnow 

 the light rubbish away, and then search over tire remaining debris 

 in a good light, and by this means have found many snails I did 

 not think occurred in this district at all. The advantage of 

 winnowing is that you have a very small quantity of rubbish to 

 search, and I believe but few of the snails have been lost, in 

 addition to which this form of snail-hunting will occupy but little 

 time in the wood — an important matter to many, myself included 

 — and I can, therefore, recommend it, and should any of your 

 readers adopt it, perhaps they will give us their experience. 



