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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. 12. JULY, 1909. No. 11. 



ANNUAL MEETING— Notice to Members. 



It is proposed to hold the next Annual Meeting in London, on 

 Saturday, October i6th, and some of the London members have 

 kindly offered to entertain members coming from the north. Any 

 member who wishes to be put up from the Saturday to the Monday 

 is requested to write forthwith to J. E. COOPER, 



68, North Hill, Highgate, N. 



SCOTLAND AND THE CENSUS OF BRITISH LAND 

 AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA. 



In response to the note printed in this Journal for April, and thanks 

 to the willing co-operation of numerous conchologists, the census has 

 advanced so rapidly in England and Ireland that, up to the time of 

 writing this, 950 blanks have been filled up. 



Of these, only forty are Scottish records, and thirty of these are from 

 one collector, Mr. John Roseburgh, of Galashiels. I, therefore, venture 

 to ask for special assistance as regards Scotland. 



Marked lists for any particular county will be sent on request. 



The species which Mr. Taylor is at present working up for his 

 jMonograph are Ptinchitn pygviaum, Pyramidula rupestris, P. rotiin- 

 data (for which two counties are still blanks : Aberdeen North and 

 Longford), Acanthinida aculeata, and A. iamellata ; and the com- 

 pletion of our records of these would at the present time be 

 particularly opportune. 



One suggestion to keen and lynx-eyed conchologists may be made : 

 the possibility of finding alive in Britain certain species known here 

 only as pleistocene or holocene fossils, but still living in Europe; such 

 as Eiclota frtdicuvi, a species easily confounded with Helicella cantiana, 

 but differing by its rounder whorls and wider umbilicus ; and Pyra- 

 viidiila ruderata, which is closely allied to P. rotundata, but has fewer 

 and rounder whorls and is without the characteristic brown fleckings. 



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