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Middlesex, Oxford, Buckingham, Gloucester, Hereford, Wor- 

 cester, Warwick, Stafford, Carmarthen, Carnarvon, Denbigh, 

 Flint, Anglesey, North Lincoln, Cheshire, Lancashire, Berwick, 

 Sutherland, Caithness, and Waterford, have been illustrated by 

 extensive consignments of specimens from correspondents. 



During the year the record-system has been extended to 

 foreign countries, in so far as concerns the exotic range of British 

 species and their allies. As yet however only 107 records of 

 this kind have been made. 



Taking the Yorkshire records for the purpose of comparison 

 with the statistics given in previous reports, it may be observ-ed 

 that 821 records have been made, as against 830 in 1882, and 

 200 in the previous year, and that the total number of records 

 now on the books for the five divisions of that county amounts 

 to 2,957. 



It is thus evident that during the year considerable progress 

 has been made in the direction of the accumulation of a mass of 

 detailed and authenticated information as to the distribution of 

 the British Land and Fresh-water IMollusca. 



The Recorder has now to thank the correspondents by 

 whose help the work has been accomplished, and to ask that 

 attention be more particularly paid now to the " neglected 

 counties." To facilitate this object and enable correspondents 

 to judge in what directions their assistance will be most useful, 

 he has prepared (for immediate publication in the Journal of 

 Conchology) a detailed memorandum gi\'ing a list of the counties 

 and vice-counties into which for this purpose the British Isles 

 have been divided, defining these areas where they are not 

 perfectly identical with political counties, and stating the 

 numerical extent to which the molluscan fauna of each has been 

 verified. But it may be here remarked — as showing what great 

 blanks exist in our information, — that from 8 counties in 

 England, 4 in Wales, 32 in Scotland, and 28 in Ireland, no 

 specimens whatever have as yet been seen by our referees, and 

 to these it will be as well to direct special attention. 



