THE 



JOURNAL 



OF 



CONCHOLOGY. 



THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SHELLS OF THE 



NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NORTH BERWICK, 



HADDINGTONSHIRE. 



By rev. JOHN McMURTRIE, M.A., EDINBURGH. 



Read before the Conchological Society, Dec. 15th, 1888, and recommended for publication 

 by the referees, W. Nelson, W. Denison Roebuck, and J. W. Taylor). 



All the names are authenticated by specimens, which are here- 

 with presented to the Museum of the Conchological Society, 

 at Leeds. 



North Berwick- is not to be confounded with Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed. It is near the centre of the coast line of East Lothian. 

 The rocks are chiefly igneous, with red sandstone, and lime- 

 stones of the carboniferous series. North Berwick Law rises to 

 the height of 640 feet. The Bass Rock, formerly a state prison, 

 now uninhabited except by sheep, rabbits, and countless solan 

 geese and other sea-fowl, is of columnar basalt, 400 feet high. 

 It rises precipitously from the sea, about a mile and a half from 

 the shore. Trapiain Law is about nine miles inland. Rhodes 

 Farm is a mile eastward along the shore from North Berwick. 

 Binning Wood is between North Berwick and Dunbar. Dunbar 

 is about ten miles east from North Berwick. Going westwards 

 from North Berwick by the Golfing Links, there are some miles 



