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we were so near Dogs Bay, to drive by car to Roundstone (11 
miles), and spend a few hours there, and so full of interest did 
we find it, that we resolved to return on the breaking up of the 
party. As we drove along the banks of the River Blackadder, 
at Ballynahinch, we obtained several specimens of Vertigo antz- 
vertigo from the inside of dead stems of gwzse¢wm in rejectamenta 
of the river. 
On Saturday, the 13th, we all went by s.s. “Duras” to 
Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare. Here, although we found most ot 
the species collected last year and already recorded, no additional 
species were obtained. We searched carefully in the old walls 
near Gleninagh Castle, where the fine example of reversed 7. 
nemoralis was taken last year, but failed to find another. We, 
however, obtained the usual proportion of the beautiful var. 
albolabiata. On the shore at Gleninagh Mr. Nichols took 
Modiolaria marmorata, Cardium norvegicum, Venus casina, 
Chiton marginatus, and a few commoner marine species. 
The following day we drove, in company with a few friends, 
to the ruins of Claregalway Abbey and to Annaghdown, on 
Lough Corrib, where many important finds were made. The 
piles of old coffin boards inside the abbey ruins proved a good 
hunting ground, and under these we found numerous varieties of 
slugs, including Avion ater var. bicolor; A. subsuscus var. auran 
tiaca ; Agriolimax agrestis var. albida; and Amalia Sowerbyi. 
Felix aspersa ; H. nemoralis in many pretty forms ; 7. rufescens, 
HT, hispida, H., rotundata var. Turtont,and some of the common 
Hyalinie were plentiful ; and on the banks of the river a small 
form of Szccenea putris was abundant. At Annaghdown the 
shore of Lough Corrib yielded Vertigo pygmaa, Hyalinia radia- 
tula, Hy. nitida, Hy. fulva of large size; Hy. nitidula, Helix 
pulchella—which here as elsewhere were all typical—and_ Cary- 
chium minimum. ‘The Lough itself contained many small Zzmnca 
stagnalis, L. truncatula, L. palustris, Pistdium pulchellum, and 
other common species. 
