1S4 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. 9, NO. 6, APRIL, 1899. 



figured], : 'On some recent and fossil Australasian species of P/i ilobryce " [P. fim- 

 briate/,, P. bernardi, P. prcenuntia, nn.spp., figured], by R. Tate. 

 The Naturalist, nos. 501-505, Oct., iS98-Feb., 1899. 



" Viviparus contectus near Askern," by J. E. Crowther. " Testacella halio- 

 tidea at Gainsborough," by F. M. Burton. "Note on Balea perversa, etc., in 

 North Lincolnshire," by A. Smith. " Extracts from a conchologist's notebook — 

 3, To Wistow and Cawood for Limncea glabra ; 4, From Selby to Camblesforth 

 and Gowdall for Limncea glabra" by W. NELSON. "Food as influencing variations 

 in Helices" by J. Hawkins. 

 Science Gossip, vol. 5, nos. 53-58, Oct., 1898-March, 1899. 



"Armature of helicoid landshells," by G. K. Gude. "Helix nemoralis eating 

 sand," by R. Ashington Bullen. " Mollusca in Norfolk," by R. Ashington 

 Bullen. "Agriolimax Icevis var. macnlatus," by T. D. A. Cockerell. "Helix 

 nemoralis in Ireland." "Fossils from millstone grit" [Note on Pule Hill], by J. H. 

 Grundy. "Pleistocene beds of the Lower Thames valley," by A. S. Kennard. 

 " Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Isle of Wight," by the late C. Ashford. 

 La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, ser. 3, nos. 336-341, Oct., 1898 Mar." 1899. 



" Organes des sens chez les mollusques terrestres," by L. Germain. " Les 

 Cyclostomes du Nord-ouest de l'Afrique," by P. Pallary. " Mode de nourritiire 

 de V Helix hoi-tensis." " Revision des Pleurotomes eocenes du bassin de Paris," 

 by E. DE BOURY. " Le Pupilla cnpa Jan {alpicola Charp. ) dans les Alpes fran- 

 chises," "Les Isthmia de la faune francaise" [/. minntissima, I. s/robeli, I. clans- 

 /rails'], by E. Margier. 

 The Irish Naturalist, vol. 7, nos. 10-12, Nov.-Dec, 1S98; vol. 8, nos. 1, 2, 



Jan., Feb., 1899. 



" Supplementary notes on the mollusca of south-west Ireland," by A. G. Stubbs 

 and Lionel E. Adams [figure of Limncea iuvolntd]. " Hydrobia jenkinsi Smith 

 in Co. Down," by R. Welch. 

 The Annals of Scottish Natural History, no. 29, Jan., 1899. 



" Notes on the effect of the recent October gale upon marine life on the coasts 

 of the Lothians," by W. Evans. " Rossia macrosoma and Eledone cirrosa on the 

 East Lothian shore," by W. Evans. 

 Proceeding's of the U.S. National Museum, nos. 1145, 1149- 



"Description of a species of Actceon from the Quaternary Bluffs at Spanish 

 Bight, San Diego, California," by R. E. C. Stearns. "Notes on Cytherea (Tivela) 

 crassatelloides Conrad, with descriptions of many varieties," by R. E. C. Stearns. 



Helices climbing' in dry weather. — On the 23rd September, at the end of 

 almost a month's extremely dry weather, when everything was brown and parched, 

 I was surprised to see numerous specimens of Helix hortensis, H. aspersa, and H. 

 rujescens at considerable elevations on a hedge at Wyke near Weymouth. The 

 molluscs were exposed to the full glare of the afternoon sun, and had retired far 

 within their shells. Many of them were ten and twelve feet from the ground. 

 They were adherent by dried mucus to the leaves and twigs. H. virgata I also 

 noticed had climbed to the tops of the stalks and blades of grass in the same 

 vicinity. That the above-mentioned species often climb high in the hedges in wet 

 weather I am well aware, but I have not before noticed the tendency to do so when 

 it is very dry. .1 imagine the object of the molluscs is to obtain the fullest benefit of 

 the heavy dew, which is especially deposited on leaves, grass-blades, and other 

 projecting objects. — K. Hurlstone Jones, M.B., R.N. ,H. M.S. 'Repulse.' {Read 

 before the Society, Nov. 9th, 1898). 



