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This species, as already stated, was one of the fossil Vertigos ob- 
tained in the material from the Elie post-tertiary deposit, and so far 
as I know this is the first record of its occurrence as a fossil in Scot- 
land. Inthe ‘‘ Census” it is stated that “ Dr. Buchanan White 
speaks of its having been found at Balmerino in Fifeshire, a 
locality which it is desirable should be reinvestigated.” If this 
implies a doubt as to the genuineness of the “ find,” the following 
will show that Dr. William Turton had no doubt about it. In his 
‘Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands,” 
p. 201, (1840), he says—“ It (Vertigo minutissima) was sent to Dr. 
Fleming by Mr. Chalmers, Surgeon, Kirkcaldy, who found it in 
the parish of Balmenna (Balmerino), Fifeshire.” Captain Thomas 
Brown also refers to it under the name Vertigo cylindrica, Ferussac, 
and says, “ Found near the village of Balmenna, Fifeshire, by my 
friend, Mr. Chalmers, Surgeon, Kirkcaldy.”* Though there can be 
no doubt that Dr. Chalmers did obtain this Vertigo as stated, it 
would be interesting to have the district “reinvestigated,” as per- 
haps other “ rarities ” might be secured besides this species. 
VERTIGO CONCINNA, provisional name. 
In the post-tertiary marl at Kirkland, Leven, described in the 
Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh, vol. x., p. 
334, a Vertigo closely resembling  pygme@a occurred as a 
moderately common shell. The surface is smooth and polished, 
the form is somewhat oval, rather tumid, whorls convex, more 
rounded on the lower side, apex of spire blunt, whorls 43, 
suture distinct, mouth small, rounded, scarcely if at all flexuous as 
in V. pygmea, destitute of teeth—not even a trace of a tooth 
being observed in the most perfect of the shells. Length, about 
2 mm.; breadth, fully 1 mm. In the “ Preliminary Notes ona 
Post-tertiary Fresh-water Deposit at Kirkland, Leven, and at Elie, 
Fifeshire,” in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society already 
referred to, I have proposed Vertigo concinna as a provisional 
name for this shell. 
* See also Dr. Fleming’s description in ‘‘ British Animals” (1828). 
