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Dentaliinii, Siphodenlaliuin, and Cadiiliis were very good, and represented 

 hy numerous species and individuals. 



Of Lima the ten species, including all the British, are very nice, but 

 the Pcctens are really a splendid series, with twenty-six species and no end of 

 varieties. A fine series of /'. opeiriilaris and its var. lineatus, are especially 

 noteworthy. There is one specimen of the var. alba of /-". septemj-adialiis, a 

 great rarity. Mylihis, Modiola, I\Iodiolavia, and Crenclla are very fine, 

 with extensive locality series. The sets of Area, N'liaila, Aslarle, etc., 

 and Cardhim are very lieautiful, especially the last named. Cyprina 

 islaitdica and Isocardia cor are very fine indeed, as also are the series 

 of Venus and Mactra. There are good series of P/iolas, Sohn, Jl/ya, PJio- 

 ladidea, Xylophnga, and Teredo, the three latter mostly in situ, and some 

 nice specimens of Galeoinma liirloni and GaslrocJuvjta diUna. the latter 

 in situ, as is also a specimen of Clavagdla. Telliim always makes a good 

 show if a number are massed together, and Dr. Norman's series is very strik- 

 ing. He has some fine specimens of Gastrana fragilis, Solei/iya, 7\indo}-a, 

 TJuacia, and Lyonsia. 



Including the Brachiopoda, of \shich he has a good drawerful, the 

 most noticeable being some enormous Phynchonel/a psiltaeea, the Marine 

 Collection numV^ers 1910 species, and also all the named varieties obtainaljle. 

 The Land and Freshwater Collection numbers 2513 species, of which 

 768 are Plclix, 549 Clansi/ia, 135 Pupa, 133 Biili minus, and 103 Ilyalinia. 

 and contains a large numlicr of sinistral and scalariform monstrosities. The 

 LimniPce and Planorhes are also verj' numerous. Of the former Dr. Norman 

 has a large series of Bourguignat's types of named 'varieties,' principally 

 of /.. peregra. The Claiisilice, Piipce, etc., are very numerously represented. 

 There are some fine examples of the larger Zonites, such as Z. alginis, 

 Z. acies, etc. 



The majority of the Helices are small, but there is a fine series of the 

 Campylcea group, of which the giant H. pouzohi is a type. A reversed 

 H. pisana, and a curious monstrosity, iztrriculata, were noticed, as was alsu 

 a reversed //. virgata. The Jberits group is very fine, notalily //. giial- 

 teriana. Of the Xerophila: there are a great number, and some very pretty 

 forms. There are several reversed H. nemoralis, and one scalariform 

 specimen, all from Bundoran. The reversed H. poinatia are very fine, and 

 there are some wonderful deformed scalariform specimens of it, also of 

 II. aspcrsa. of which there is one reversed. 



(^)i \}ne.' Vertigos, V. moulinsiana, and V. lilljeliorgi, XhcXzlitr y^-txft 

 cjiiite indistinguishable from the specimens of Ve7iigo andveiiigo mounted 

 on the card immediately above them. 



The sets of IAmn(^a stagnalis are very good, especially a series received 

 from Hungary — Hazay's collecting. There is one reversed L. stagnalis, a 

 small specimen, which Dr. Norman took himself in a very singular manner. 

 He said that being out shooting one day, when he was a young man, he 

 chanced to leap over a ditch, and as he leaped he looked down and saw this 

 shell on the surface, and noticed that it was reversed too, and of course lost 

 no lime in securing it — the only one he ever saw, and never heard of another 



