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conchologists and the general public than any other similar sale for 

 several years ; indeed, the rooms presented a very animated and 

 crowded appearance, and to some extent recalled the old days of 

 Cuming, Reeve, and Barclay, in the sixties and seventies. 



The whole were catalogued (we believe by Mr. Preston) in 438 

 lots, including books and pamphlets, and the prices realized were 

 generally high, there being considerable competition. Lots 242 and 

 243, containing each a single specimen (one, uniformly dark-brown, 

 the other paler, with one spiral dark band) of the wonderful B^dinius 

 labeo Broderip, were particularly sought after ; as also lot 97, a fine 

 assemblage of moUusca from Lake Tanganyika ; and the fine series 

 we have already alluded to, of Cochlostyla. from the Philippines, 

 Papuincz from the Solomon and allied islands, and the exceptional 

 groups of Bulimi. His collections of Chloritis were also very fine, 

 and included C. concisa Fer. and many other rarely seen species. 



The Colonization of Mollusca. — It is evident from his note in the last 

 number oi \hQ Journal that the Rev. Canon J. W. Horsley has no sympathy with 

 the conchologist who studies the distribution of our land and freshwater mollusca. 

 It may be that those interested in colonization deem the discontinuous distribution 

 of certain species to be due to an oversight of nature. But I think that many wil 

 agree that their time and zeal might be more profitably employed in other way 

 than upsetting and rendering— to a large extent — useless the work of those engaged 

 in disclosing the geographical distribution of our shells. And might I ask what 

 good can possibly arise from introducing a particular species into a particular part 

 of the country which it does not naturally inhabit ? I cannot but feel glad that 

 — up to the present — most of the attempts to colonize shells have failed. — A. W. 

 Stelfox [Read before the Society, January 8th, 1908). 



Additions to the Mollusca of Lundy Island. —During a short visit to 

 Lundy at the end of August, 1907, I collected among other land mollusca the fol- 

 lowing species, which are not mentioned in Mr. Tomlin's paper (antea, pp. 120- 

 122) : — Luiiax maxnmis, L. arboruin, Milax gagates var. plunibea, Arion sub- 

 fuscus, A. intermedins and Ca7ychium viinimtim. y^r/wi a/t?;- was inconveniently 

 abundant, in that it persistently devoured the bait — bread and powdered aniseed — 

 in my mouse tiaps. In addition to the typical form of this species, I found the 

 vars. aterrima and castanea not uncommonly, whilst the beautiful vars. aibolateralis 

 a.nd bicolor viete. particularly plentiful. — Chas. Oldham [Read before the Society, 

 January 8th, 1908). 



