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Pupa ringens Jeff. Airy Holme Wood. 



Vertigo substriata Jeff. Guisborough Woods ; not rare 

 (W. C. H.) 



V. pusilla Miill. Guisborough, very scarce (W. C. H.) 

 Balsa perversa L. Airy Holme Wood. 



Clausilia rugosa Di-ap. Near Guisborough, Ayton, 

 Stokesley, &c. 



C. laminata Mont. Round Roseberry, but not common. 

 Cochlicopa tridens Pult. Airy Holme Wood. 



Achat! na acicula Midi. Among wreck cast up by the 

 river Tees (alien? C. A.) 



Acme lineata Drap. Airy Holme Wood; not uncommon 

 some years back. (I have specimens from this wood in my cabinet 

 kindly presented to me by Mr. W^atscn in 1853, C.A.) 



Airy Holme Wood, situate midway between the village of 

 Gt. Ayton and Roseberry Topping, perhaps 400 ft. above sea level, 

 and once so rich in good shells, has of late been sadly cut up. Mr. 

 Watson writes me — "Its glories as a conchological locality are I 

 am sorry to say a thing of the past. The Whinstone Trap Dyke 

 crosses the lower end of the wood, and quarrying for the 

 stone has destroyed all its beauties, and, it is to be feared has 

 exterminated some of the rarer species." 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 Exploring Expeditions. — We are happy to see various 

 expeditions are or have been set on foot by the smaller European 

 natici". i\ small Dutch expedition in rSjS in the " Willem 

 Barentz" made a cruise in the Spitzbergen Seas preparatory to a 

 more ambitious attempt in 1879. For three seasons the Nor- 

 wegians have organized — under the charge of Dr. Mohn and Dr. 

 Sars — expeditions for exploring the depths of the sea between 



J.C. ii., August, 1879. U 2 



