YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT LECKBY CARR. 235 
minimus, A. bourguignati, etc. Leaving this coppice the party turned 
to the right and made for the ‘low-lying piece of country with slow- 
running ditches’ mentioned in the circular. Alas for their anticipa- 
tions, the slow ditches were without water, as a rule, but after careful 
searching some water was found, and the ‘ gravy-strainers’ being set to 
work, there were obtained ZLimnaa peregra, Planorbis spirorbis, and 
Pisidium pusillum. The party 4 Sahay this what may fairly be 
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vicinity of a slight wooden bridge, Byrhinia tentaculata, Planorbis 
umbilicatus, and Limnea peregra of quite another form from those 
rst met with a few yards away. Here the junior member of the 
party secured a specimen of the ‘tinker,’ or ten-spined stickleback, 
a rather uncommon species e commoner three-spined stickleback 
was also found. The pe were then left, and the party crossed 
some fields and struck into a road which led through Asenby. Just 
as they were leaving the village search was made at the foot of a wall, 
the result being the finding specimens of Zimax maximus, Zonites 
cellarius, Vitrina, Helix aspersa, H. hispida, and H. rotundata. 
Leaving the road, and taking to the banks of the Swale, a number of 
botanists were encountered, and their leader, Mr. W. Foggitt, kindly 
showed the nearest way to Leckby Carr. Here not a single shell of 
any kind was to be found, and though there was some water, it 
was of a coffee colour and of a pungent odour, and was quite devoid 
of molluscan life. The woods here showed evidences of the severe 
frost of the night preceding, the beautiful foliage of the beech trees 
being completely shrivelled up. Leaving this unprofitable ground 
the party took to the main road again, leaving it at Cundall, where 
they were strengthened by another member. After leaving the pretty 
village some fields were crossed and a shallow grass-grown pond found, 
where Limnea peregra was obtained. Crossing more fields another 
similar pond was reached close to the margin of the Swale, which 
yielded Physa hypnorum rather commonly, also Planorbis umbilicatus, 
one specimen of 2. contortus, and several of /isidium fontinale. 
Crossing more fields the road was reached again near Red House, but 
just before this was reached the latest recruit went to turn over 
a stone lying on the ground near a clothes-post and evidently 
used by the women of the farm to stand on when tying up the 
clothes-cord. Turning it over he found it to be a quern, one of the 
primitive hand-mills formerly used for grinding corn. The antiquarian 
instinct was too strong to permit the quern to fulfil its present 
rather ignoble purpose, so after some considerable trouble in finding 
the owner it was purchased at small cost and carried off in triumph, 
to be placed in more fitting surroundings by its new possessor. This 
August 189. 
