JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. i 
FURTHER CONCHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE 
WEST OF IRELAND. 
By EDWARD COLLIER anp ROBERT STANDEN. 
(Read before the Conchological Society, November 6th, 1895). 
In July last we received an invitation to join the Irish Field, 
Clubs’ Union in their joint excursion to Galway and neighbour 
hood, which we gladly accepted, since it not only enabled us to 
revisit the district treated of by one of us in the April number 
of the ‘Journal of Conchology” for 1895 (pp. 42-46), but likewise 
afforded an exceptional opportunity for exploring a wider area ot 
one of the richest and most varied fields in all Ireland for 
scientific work. The programme was extensive, comprising the 
inspection of Galway itself, and a trip to Gentian Hill, in the 
outskirts of the town; day trips to the I'welve Bens of Conne- 
mara ; to Ballyvaughan, and the Burren district of Co. Clare ; 
to the Aran Islands ; and to Oughterard, Carn Sefin, and Lough 
Corrib. ; 
The conchologists in the party were but few, comprising 
only ourselves, Mr. R. Welch, of Belfast, and Mr. A. R. Nichols, 
and Miss Kelsall, of Dublin. 
We do not propose to give a detailed list of all the species 
of mollusca collected, this having been already done in the 
September number of the “ Irish Naturalist,” but to notice some 
of our more important finds, together with such observations 
thereon as may be of general interest. Altogether we obtained 
44 terrestrial, 27 fluviatile, and 112 marine species—the latter 
being the result of shore collecting, to which, as we had no 
dredging appliances, our researches were entirely confined. 
From Galway to the northward extends a chain of lakes, 
and these, roughly speaking, form the boundary between the 
flat limestone country of the central plain and the high ground, 
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