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REPORT 1839. 



Mr. Brand in his papers on the statistics of British Botany; but 

 as yet the zoology of our country has not been sufficiently in- 

 vestigated, in many of our provinces, to warrant such a subdi- 

 vision. In the adoption of the following districts I have rather 

 followed zoological peculiarities than topographical limits. 



I. 

 II. 



III. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 

 VII. 

 VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



Districts. 



Primary Influences. 



Secondary Influences. 



Positive. 



Negative. 



Positive. 



Negative. 



The Channel Isles. 

 S.E. of England. 



S.W. of England. 



N.E. of England. 

 N.W. of England. 

 N. of Ireland. 

 S. of Ireland. 

 S. of Scotland. 



N. of Scotland. 



Shetland Isles. 



Climate, 

 f Climate. 

 \ Structure. 



Climate. 



Structure, 



Structure. 



Structure. 



Climate. 



Structure. 



Structure. 



Marine. 

 Rivers, &c. 



Marine. 



Woods. 

 Marine. 

 Marine. 

 Marine. 

 Woods. 



Marine. 



J Absence of 

 t Canals, &c. 



Structure. 



Climate. 



Climate. 



Clirnate. 



Structure. 



Climate. 

 r Climate. 

 \ Structure. 



Climate. 



Want of water 

 ' in parts. 



Elevation. 







' Elevation. 

 Want of wood. 

 Want of wood. 









District I. — There needs some apology for including the Chan- 

 nel Isles in the preceding table. Botanists and conchologists 

 have long been in the habit of enumerating their productions 

 as members of the British Fauna and Flora ; a better excuse, 

 however, is, that by considering their inhabitants, in conjunc- 

 tion with those more truly British, we are enabled to connect, 

 as it were, the natural history of our country with that of the 

 continent, and thus avoid limited and local notions. The 

 peculiarities of the first or more southern district are climatal ; 

 in this province we see an instance of positive climatal influ- 

 ence, and of the predominance of climate over geological struc- 

 ture. The islands are primitive, and, as far as rock goes, un- 

 favourable to the development of Mollusca; nevertheless, shells 

 rarely found in such situations, such as Helix variabilis and 

 striata, are there seen in great numbers. The scarcity of ponds 

 and lakes, and of water generally, accounts for the small list of 

 fresh-water Pulmonifera, viz. three Limnei, one Flanorbis, and 

 one Ancylus. The Limnei are L.pereger, L.palustris, and L. 

 minutus. In the island of Herm these are found in a situation 

 deserving of notice. Here and there, among the low sandy 

 banks formed by the sea, are springs of fresh water, forming 

 little pools, the bottoms of which are sandy. In these pools 

 we find the Limnei I have mentioned. The single Flanorbis 

 is P. nitidus. Amonji the Helices we find in this district two 



