OLDHAM : LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA OF CHESHIRE. Ill 



H. J. Bellars.— ' Illustrated Catalogue of British Land and 

 Freshwater Shells.' 1858. 



John Hardy. — ' British Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca, with 



the localities of the Manchester species.' [Manchester 

 Scientific Students' Association Report, 1864, Appendix]. 



John Hardy. — Appendix to above. 1865. 



J. Cosmo Melvill. — Mollusca [British Association Handbook to 



Manchester]. 1887. 



J. G. Milne and C. Oldham. — 'The Molluscan Fauna of the 



Bowdon District of Cheshire.' [Journal of Conchology, 

 vol. vii. 1892-1894.] 

 In the Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural Science 

 [No. iii, 1885] is a list of the Land and Freshwater Shells of the 

 Society's district, by G. W. Shrubsole. The compiler speaks of 

 H. rufescens and II fulva as doubtful British species, and records 

 C. biplicata and B. montanus from localities in North Wales 1 

 statements which render the list too unreliable for serious considera- 



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tion. The Rev. H, H. Higgins' account of the Liverpool Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca (Proc. Liverpool Nat. Field Club, 1890) is 

 little more than a reprint of Byerley's list. 



Apart from the detailed information contained in the lists, there 

 are many scattered records of Cheshire mollusca in * The Journal 

 of Conchology/ 'The Naturalist/ 'The Naturalists' Scrap-book' 

 (Liverpool, 1863-1864), Jeffreys' 'British Conchology,' and the 

 * Proceedings ' of local scientific societies. 



I have examined the local mollusca in the Grosvenor Museum, 

 Chester, which include a collection made by Mr. A. J. Nixon, some- 

 time schoolmaster at Manley. 



It remains to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. J. B. Tomlin 

 for a list of the species found by him in the neighbourhood of 

 Chester; to Mr. K. H. Jones for notes on a collection made at 

 Disley; to Captain W. J. Fairer for a detailed account of the 

 species collected by him in Wirral in 1890, and to Messrs. L. E, 

 Adams, R. Cairns, E. Collier, J. G. Milne, T. Rogers, R. Standen, 

 and H. Walmsley, whose invaluable assistance in the shape of notes 

 and specimens will be duly indicated by their respective initials. 

 My thanks are due in a special measure to Mr. W. Denison Roebuck 

 for assistance in naming the varieties of the Slugs; to Mr. J. W. 

 Taylor, who from time to time has placed me under many obliga- 

 tions by determining some of the more critical forms in the shelled 



*BelIars was Hon. Secretary and Curator of the Chester Natural History 

 Society, and his book deals largely with shells found in the vicinity of that 

 city. 



April 1896. 



