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EXTRACTS FROM A CONCHOLOGIST’S NOTEBOOK. — 
WILLIAM NELSON, M.C.S., 
Crossgates, Leeds; Hon. Sec., Leeds Conchological Club. 
3-—TO WISTOW AND CAWOOD FOR LIMN42A GLABRA, 
At the beginning of 1887, having been told by my friend, 
Mr. J. W. Taylor, of a locality at Bishop Wood for this local 
species where he had obtained several years before, I deter- 
mined on an examination of the district to search for it, and 
during the first week in May I started for Bishop Wood, via 
Hambleton. 1 stayed a little time to examine the broad — 
Stream or dyke and obtained specimens of Spherium cor- 
neum, Bythinia tentaculata, Valvata piscinalis, Planorbts albus, 
P. vortex, P. carinatus, P. umbilicatus, Physa fontinalis, Limnea 
peregra and L. truncatula. Having left here and gone towards 
the wood, I could not but notice the daisy-spreckled banks, and 
here I saw my first butterfly of the season, a hybernated speci- 
men of the Small Tortoiseshell (Vanessa urtice). Ina ditch here 
I found a few specimens of Physa hypnorum, Planorbis spirorbis, 
and Limnea truncatula, but I searched in vain for a pond where, 
about 1859, I was wont to get specimens of the Water Violet 
(Hottonia palustris) for my aquarium; I suppose since that time 
it has been filled up. I again joined the path, and in a drain 
near obtained Limnaa peregra and L. truncatula, both rather 
large. The former were very fragile and, though J brought 
a good many away, I scarcely got a perfect example home. In 
a pond near to the farm I obtained additional sia of 
Physa hypnorum, Planorbis spirorbis, Limnea per and 
L. truncatula. Having passed through the farmy rs gid road 
skirts the wood, which at the time was bright with Primroses 
(Primula vulgaris), and here again I saw some butterflies 
flitting about, and which from their size and manner of flight, 
I concluded were the Small White (Pieris rapa). 1 then turned 
into the road that runs through the wood to examine the ditch 
On each side of the road, but I failed to find any shells. I spent 
considerable time at this place, because I understood it was here 
where Mr. Taylor found the species I was in search of. I left 
very reluctantly, and gave up all hope of finding my favourite 
Species of Zimnea. 1 then retraced my steps into the road 
again, and proceeded till I came to a ditch near Scalm Park. 
February 1899, _ 
