522 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
and Magazine of Natural History’ for May, 1869,* that the friend 
referred to by Mr. Broadwood was Mr. Marlborough Pryor, of 
Trinity College, Cambridge. 
I have been thus careful to give the dates of the various com- 
muuications on the subject which have been published, becanse 
there appeared to be some doubt’as to whom the credit of redis- 
covering this annelid in England belonged. 
The soil upon which the specimens in question were found is 
described by Mr. Broadwood as the hardest wealden clay, and 
though very deep, it is so close that every hole and crack holds 
water, and it is a long time before the rain becomes absorbed. 
Ata meeting of the Croydon Microscopical Club, held on the 
16th November, 1870, the President, Mr. Henry Lee, announced 
his discovery, three weeks previously, of a new locality for 
Trochetia subviridis,—namely, on the Beddington Sewage- 
irrigation Farm of the town of Croydon,—and stated that he was 
informed that it was also to be found on the other irrigation-land 
belonging to that town at Norwood. He had fonnd it “in about 
six inches of water at the bottom of the great ditch which conveys 
the Croydon sewage on to the estate before it flows over the land, 
and for three weeks it had lived and thriven in a bowl of water 
with two minnows.” Three months after this report,t it was still 
liave and in good condition, having been kept in water all the time 
in Mr. Woodward's room at the British Museum. 
Mr. Henry Lee was informed by another correspondent that he 
had heard of these leeches in Hants, and one of his own relatives 
assured him, in 1869, that at Lindfield, in Sussex, about five and 
twenty years previously, Land Leeches were so abundant in the 
fields and on the footpaths through them, that the ladies of the 
family who resided there avoided them in their evening walks. 
Mr. Marlborough Pryor has recently been good enough to inform 
me that in November, 1876, he found a specimen of T'rochelia 
subviridis at Elstree, in Hertfordshire. As in the case of the 
Sussex specimens, it was found upon a stiff clay soil. 
In conclusion, | may state that I have lately been favoured by 
Professor Garrod with two specimens of a Land Leech which, 
some months since, he found with some others on a moist foot- 
* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Series, vol. iii., p. 369. 
+ ‘First Report and Abstract of Proceedings of the Croydon Microscopical Club,’ 
1871, pp. 22, 23. 
