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EXTRACTS 
FROM A CONCHOLOGIST’S NOTE-BOOK. 
WILLIAM NELSON, 
Crossgates, Leeds; Hon. Curator to the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 
I. To Batley for Limnza glabra.—On a bitter cold morning 
in the early part of February twenty-seven years ago, I started out 
accompanied by my friend J. Beevers—at that time an enthusiastic 
conchologist—in search for Limnea glabra at a locality near Batley, 
particulars of which had been communicated to us by a mutual 
friend (and here I BEE say the locality was near to the present 
railway station, and has been built on many years ago). The 
weather for some time er been very mild, causing the vegetation to 
begin growing in the bottom of the hedges, but a severe frost having 
Set in some days before our journey made it useless for us to search 
for shells on the road-side, so that we arrived at Woodchurch before 
making any attempt. Here we obtained specimens of <Ancylus 
Jiuviatilis from a small rapidly-running stream, and then pushing 
along to our destination, which was a small pond in a bye-lane, 
we found the pond frozen over, but, procuring a stone, we broke a 
hole through the ice ; then taking off our coats and turning up our 
shirt-sleeves we Jay flat down on the ice, when we groped with our 
ands beneath it, and so obtained handfuls of Ca//itriche, amongst 
which we found a few specimens of /rs¢dia, and numerous examples 
of Limnea glabra, some of which are now in my collection, 
and serve to remind me of my first acquaintance with this local 
Species in one of its native habitats. 
2. To Havercroft Green for Limnza glabra.—On a fine 
morning in the latter part of February 1882, I called on J. Hebden, 
who for many years was one of our very best out-door naturalists 
(can nothing be done to re-enlist his interest in our common studies?), 
and who had promised to take me to this locality for Z. g/abra (which 
I had not hitherto visited). Passing through Sandal we examined an 
old garden wall, and noticed the Rue Fern (Asplenium ruta-muraria), 
but found no shells. In a lane at Walton we obtained Zonites nitidulus, 
and going along the side of Haw Park searched the foot of the wall, and 
obtained examples of Zonites alliarius, Z. excavatus, Helix aculeata, 
Hl. hispida and H. rotundata, and, under a piece of rotting wood, 
Zonites radiatulus. Arriving at Cold Hiendley reservoir we skirted the 
large sheet of water, and searched one or two small ponds without 
Success. Crossing some fields, we went in anything but a direct course ; 
eventually we turned along a lane, where we noticed the first flowers 
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