OBITUARY : CHARLES ASHFORD, 407 



' Suggestions for a Serial Arrangement of the Variations of our 



Banded Land Shells.' 

 ' Bulimus acutus var. bizona in the Isle of Wight.' 

 ' Note on Bidimus heterostomus of the Eocene, Isle of Wight.' 

 ' Notes from the Isle of Wight.' 

 ' Destruction of Shell-life by Floods.' 



' Note on the Anatomy of Helix hispida and H. cantia?ia.' 

 ' A List of the Shells of the Lower Tees District, Yorkshire.' 

 ' On the Action of the Heart in the Helicida. during Hiberna- 

 tion.' 

 ' The Darts of the British Helicidce.'' 

 ' Note on the Anatomy of Helix sericea Miill.' 

 ' Land and Freshwater Mollusca round Christchurch, South 

 Hants.' 



His wealth of knowledge upon the mollusca was freely and 

 unselfishly given to everyone who desired information, and by 

 the writer and many others he was consulted upon every point 

 of difficulty, his wise and moderate counsels being valued and 

 appreciated. Few will miss his wise and friendly help more 

 than the writer, who was closely associated with him for a 

 number of years, constantly receiving help and assistance in 

 our mutual study, his kindly and unselfishly generous nature 

 and actions endearing him more and more and rendering his 

 lamented death harder to be borne. The autograph, etc., 

 accompanying the portrait of our late dear friend and colleague, 

 has a melancholy interest attached, as they were part of a letter 

 addressed to the writer, the last he ever wrote, only just before 

 retiring to rest the evening before his lamented death. 



The beautiful collection of British land and freshwater 

 shells formed by him has generously been placed for a time in 

 the Leeds Museum, under the care of the Conchological 

 Society, and it is hoped that every conchologist who can make 

 it convenient will endeavour to avail himself of the opportunity 

 to examine the instructive series Mr. Ashford brought together 

 with so much pains and labour. 



