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coloured variety to be found there, while on the Flat 
Holm there was only the ordinary chocolate-coloured 
John 
one, like that found in the county elsewhere.) ”? 
Storrie (Assoc. Linn. Soc.), 104 Frederick Street, 
Cardiff. 
Glamorganshire. 
“T was born on a farm about half a mile to the 
south of the town of Llantrisant (Newpark), a place 
which was infested with snakes and vipers. From 
my experience of these reptiles, extending over thirty 
years, I have found that they exist in a greater 
number on the hmestone or ironstone measures im- 
mediately adjoining the coal-beds on the South Crop, 
and IT believe it is so on the North Crop, near Aberdare, 
Vaynor, &e., in North Glamorgan, and the borders of 
Breconshire. 
“Tt would seem to ine that the snakes, &c., still 
retain the locality of the submerged forests, where 
they probably existed in a large state in prehistoric 
times. The plants of this particular neighbourhood 
differ somewhat from the plants actually erowing 
above the coal-beds—and which plants may be con- 
ducive to animal hfe—upon which the snake (the 
''The above report was sent to me for this work shortly before 
Myr Storrie’s death. This sad event will be fresh in the minds of all 
Glamorganshire naturalists. By his death the county has lost. its 
best local naturalist, and a man of wide learning in kindred sciences. 
He was the author of a Kauna of Eastern Glamorgan, and an 
Associate of the Linnean Society.—Author. 
