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placed upon a firm footing in our Lancashire list, by Mr. 

 Heathcote's last important discovery, I feel confident that 

 future close and careful search by our members will result in 

 its being taken in other localities, perchance quite as unlikely 

 as the Fleetwood one. 



Since writing above I have found that in the British 

 Museum collection there are eight specimens of Ac?ne labelled 

 " Preston, Lancashire," but Mr. Edgar A. Smith informs me he 

 can give no satisfactory information respecting these beyond 

 ■that they were purchased in 1836 from Mr. Sowerby, but 

 whence he obtained them is unknown. The fact may, however, 

 be worth noting, as there is a possibility that they came origin- 

 ally from the collection of the late Mr. Gilbertson, of Preston, 

 which I have been unable to trace satisfactorily; all I can 

 learn being that his shells were sent to London after his death. 

 There is also a record in the Transactions of the Chester 

 Natural Science Society (1884), of its occurrence at Blacon 

 Point, Cheshire. This record, however, seems to require 

 further verification, for Mr. G. W. Shrubsole, who is responsible 

 for it, informs me, in reply to enquiries respecting it, " that the 

 Chester Society for several years offered prizes for local 

 collections of shells, and these lists he afterwards embodied in 

 a paper which was published in the Transactions of the Society. 

 "The collection," he says, "from which the species is recorded is 

 not now available for reference, and he did not examine critically 

 the different species." 



Adeorbis subcarinatus at Teignmouth, S. Devon. 



— I have the pleasure of recording the occurrence of Adeorbis 

 suhcarmatus (Mont.) alive on the 28th July, 1888, (fifteen 

 months ago), in this neighbourhood, which, I believe, is tlie 

 first find in a living state on the English coasts. I hope on 

 a future occasion to furnish some interesting information 

 concerning this species. — L. St. G. Byne, Teignmouth, ist 

 November, 1889. 



J.C., vi., Jan., 1890. 



