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Var. crystallma Dupuy. 



A single specimen was discovered in a hedge-bank near Stype Wood, 

 Bagshot, v.c. 8. 

 Clausilia rolphii Leach. 



Eighty-one specimens of this rare species were found in a hedge- 

 bank near Stype Wood, Bagshot, v.c. 8. 

 Carychiu?n jnitiimum Miiller. 



Bedwyn Common, v.c. 7. 

 Ancylus fluviatilis Miiller. 



This very local Wiltshire species was observed in fair plenty in a 

 stream at Great Bedwyn, v.c. 8. 

 Planorbis iwibilicotus Miiller. 



In a stream at Great Bedwyn, v.c. 8. 

 Physa fontinalis I.. 



In a stream at Great Bedwyn, v.c. 8. 

 Vivipara vivipara L. 



Var. efasciata Pickering. 



In the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Savernake, v.c. 8. 

 Pomatias elegatis Miiller. 



Plentiful in hedge-banks at Great Bedwyn, v.c. 7 and v.c. 8. 



The following varieties were also noticed : — Var. fasciata Picard, 

 v.c. 7 ; var. pallida Moq., v.c. 7 ; and var. maculosa Moq., v.c. 8. 

 Unio pidoriitn L. 



Abundant in the Kennet and Avon Canal between Great and Little 

 Bedwyn, v.c. 7 and v.c. 8. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Dr. Henry Lavf.r, who joined the Conchological Societj' in 1879, died at 

 Colchester on yth September last in his 88th year. He was a well-known antiquary, 

 an authority on local history and architecture, and ex-president of the Essex 

 Archceological Society, to whose Transactions he was a regular contril)utor. The 

 only article he ever wrote for this Journal was a short one in vol. i., p. 264, 

 entitled — "Suggestions for finding the smaller Land Shells." He wrote a work 

 on the " Mammals of Essex." Dr. Laver was Hon. Curator of the Cplchester 

 Museum and senior Alderman of the Corporation. He held the office of Mayor in 

 1885-6. He was also chairman of the Colne Fishery ^oard, which manages the 

 oyster fishery for the Corporation, and was for many years a prominent figure at the 

 Colchester Oyster Feasts, held annually until the outbreak of the war. 



A much needed and invaluable paper of some 80 pages on " The Post-Pliocene 

 Non-Marine Mollusca of Ireland," by A. S. Kennard and B. B. Woodward, 

 appeared last year in the Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xxviii., pt. 3, pp. 109-190. The 



