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Conchological Notes from Japan. —After just missing the Russian fleet our 

 ship full of contraband of war arrived safely at Nagasaki two days after Togo had 

 so satisfactorily arranged matters in the Corean Straits, and forthwith I entered upon 

 a two-months' study of the natural history as well as of the other attractions of the 

 Flowery Land. I am sorry to say that I found the collecting of land and freshwater 

 shells disappointing in results. Though it was the rainy season, and during and 

 after days of torrential rain I searched rocky roadside cuttings covered with moss 

 and creepers, mossy stone walls, heaps of promising vegetable refuse among the 

 fallen stones of ancient graveyards and in the shady groves of temples, and this in a 

 sort of exaggerated Devonshire climate with subtropical heat between the showers, 

 my success was not great. Round about the little peninsula that forms one side of 

 Nagasaki harbour was any quantity of H. sieboldiana Pfr., but they were without 

 exception immature and therefore useless ; this was the only shell I came across in 

 the district. My researches extended throughout June and July, a season in which 

 in these latitudes one expects to find the adult snails pairing, feeding or asstivating; 

 but as a matter of fact adult shells were scarce, young unformed last year's 

 specimens being sometimes the only ones in evidence. The shortness of my stay, 

 of course, prevented my ascertaining their times of hibernation, spring emergence, 



