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 OBITUARY NOTICE. 



THE REV. ROBERT ASHINGTON BULLEN, B.A., F.G.S. 



By the rev. canon T- W. HORSLEY, M.A. 



(Read before the Society, Sept. nth, 1912). 



On August 14th, the Rev. Robert Ashington BuUen, of Hilden Manor, 

 Tonbridge, died suddenly, shortly after leaving home for a visit to the 

 Continent. Taking a B.A. degree at the University of London in 

 1873, he entered Holy Orders in the diocese of Canterbury, and 

 served three curacies at St. Peter's, Croydon, Farleigh, and St. Marga- 

 ret's, Westminster, the last being under Archdeacon Farrar, who was 

 subsequently Dean of Canterbury. He was afterwards Vicar of 

 Shorehara in Kent, Rector of Lower Stukeley in Hants., and Rector 

 of Wisley with Pyrford in Surrey, resigning this in 1905 and devoting 

 his means and leisure largely to natural history and archccological 

 matters. 



The writer's first acquaintance with him was when Mr. Bullen, as a 

 young London clergyman, was profoundly interested in the Social 

 Purity question, and later their meetings and correspondence were 

 chiefly due to their membership of the Conchological Society, and his 

 last letter to the writer was a few months ago as to the occurrence of 

 Helix poviatia in Shoreham. 



A good and interesting man, he took up Conchology with some 

 enthusiasm, and also made an especial study of Holocene deposits, 

 and of British flint implements. In the field he was a painstaking 

 and accurate observer. 



CENSUS AUTHENTICATIONS. 



By W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., Hon. Recorder. 



All ihe records here given are based upon examples sent to the official 

 authenticators : myself for slugs only ; Mr. Fred Taylor for Paludestrinids ; and 

 Mr. John W. Taylor for all other species. 



Co. Carlow : Mr. R. A. Phillips has submitted a dead example of Planorbis 



fontanus, taken at Tinnahinch, March, iqi2. 

 Carnarvonshire : On 12th December, 1910, Mr. Harold King, of Upper Bangor, 



sent specimens of Testacella sctilu/uiii, of which he had found five at that place. 



This is a new record, not only for Carnarvonshire, but for the principality of 



Wales. At the same time he sent examples of Helix acuta, found in 1907, on 



the sandhills at Nevin. 

 Channel Isles : We have seen examples of Phytia niyosotis from Guernsey 



(Sowerby and Fulton), in the Essex Museum. 



