262 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



A DAY'S COLLECTING NEAR HOWDEN, YORKS. 



By W. nelson. 



(Read before the Conchological Society.) 



An account of a real day's collecting amongst the Limnaeidse 

 is of more real service to sound and practical naturalists than 

 one of an ideal day's work, though the latter can be made much 

 more interesting and certainly can be done with infinitely 

 less trouble, all that is required being a few lists of other workers 

 with a few species added from imagination ; but after all it 

 would have been a day's collecting that could not have been 

 done, and nothing is more likely to damp the ardour of a 

 beginner than falling far short of what he has been led by the 

 account of an ideal day's work to think can be accomplished. 



Having agreed with Mr. CoUinge to have a day's snail-hunt- 

 ing, and both of us being most interested in the LimncEidce^ we 

 planned to visit the flat piece of country round Howden and 

 Wressle, being sure here to find numerous drains, slow streams 

 and ponds, in fact the very places to find shells of this family. 

 In addition to this I was most desirous of visiting the Market 

 Weighton Canal where I hoped to find Linincea auricularia. 



On Whit-Monday of this year (30th May, 1887), I joined 

 my companion at Leeds, Marsh Lane Station, where we booked 

 to Selby. Arriving here we rebooked to Howden, but on 

 arriving at this place we retained our seats and went forward to 

 Eastrington. The morning was very dull and threatening, in 

 fact rain fell during a short space of time at Howden, but had 

 ceased when we arrived at Eastrington. Here we found we 

 could save some walking by taking the train on the Hull and 

 Barnsley line to Newport, on arriving at which we at once 

 hurried to the banks of the Market Weighton Canal, but on 

 getting a view of it, we were quite satisfied that we must quickly 

 leave it again. It is evidently a tidal canal, and at the time of 



J.C, v., Jan., 1888. 



