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MOLLUSCA OF KENDAL, WESTMORLAND. 



By J. WILFRID JACKSON, F.G.S. 



(Read before the Society, November nth, ic 



The following contribution to the mollusca of the Kendal district has 

 been written with a view of drawing together and placing on record in 

 a more accessible form the conchological work done in the neighbour- 

 hood by many of the older workers, more especially that of Dr. 

 Thomas Gough, of Kendal, one of the founders of the Kendal 

 Natural History and Scientific Society, established in 1835. As a 

 naturalist, Gough was pre-eminently an all-round man. He was the 

 son of the " blind philosopher," John Gough, and was born at 

 Middleshaw, Old Hutton, on November 30th, 1804. In his pro- 

 fessional career as a medical man he was in every respect successful. 

 He finally retired from practice in 1872, and his death took place 

 on July 17th, 1880. 



Geology was during the greater part of his life his favourite subject, 

 but he was equally well versed in other branches of natural history. 

 He seemed to have an aversion to committing his observations to 

 paper in a form suitable for publication, and as the published results 

 of his fifty years' study and observation there remain only two small 

 works, viz. : — " Personal Reminiscences of the Habits of Animals," 

 and " The Heronry of Dallam Tower." It is true that he published 

 many short articles, signed "S.H.,' in the columns of the local news- 

 papers, but most of his moUuscan records were published through 

 the instrumentality of friends with whom he corresponded, the 

 Kendal records given by Capt. Brown, Lowe and others being ob- 

 tained in this way. In 1853 he supplied a list of land and freshwater 

 shells found in the neighbourhood of Kendal to the publisher of 

 the fourth edition of " Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes," and it is 

 from this list mainly that the following records are taken. 



I have visited the district myself on more than one occasion, and 

 have added my own observations to the list. For ready reference, a 

 bibliography of the books and papers referred to is appended. It 

 will be noticed that one or two of Gough's records refer to places 

 some little distance from Kendal ; these I have thought it advisable 

 to include, in order to keep the list in its entirety. 



I trust this small contribution will prove an incentive to further 

 molluscan research in the somewhat neglected county of Westmor- 

 land. 



Limax maximus Linne. — "In gardens and outhouses" (Gough). 



Limax flavus Linne. 

 var. umbrosa Philippi. 



