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only form at Ross on horse-radish, vide H. hortensis, 

 Succinea putris), rubens (Hereford, not very common), 

 minor (common). 



* Helix hispida. Common. Many forms lead to 

 the var. concinna. 



* Helix fusca. Very local. Doward Hill. 



* Helix caperata. Very common ; with vars. 

 obliterata,fulva, Gigaxii. 



Helix ericetorum. Local, but abundant at Burghill. 



Helix rotundata. Very abundant. 



Helix rupestris. Very local, but abundant at 

 Doward Hill in cracks in the cliff, among grass, 

 dead leaves, etc. 



Helix pygmcea. One specimen among dead leaves 

 at Rotherwas. 



* Helix pulchella. Not uncommon. Dinedor, Back- 

 bury Hill, etc. Mostly among dead leaves. 



* Helix lapicida. Local and uncommom. Doward 

 Hill : Dormington. 



* Bulimus obscurus. Fairly common. Doward 

 Hill : Breinton : Dormington. 



Pupa seeale. Local, but very abundant on the 

 Doward Hill : also at Dormington. 



* Pupa ringens. Not very common : Doward Hill. 

 Pupa umbilicala. Not uncommon. Doward Hill : 



Dormington. 



Pupa marginata. Not uncommon. Doward Hill : 

 Dormington. 



(Note. — The Doward Hill and Dormington are 

 both on the limestone.) 



Vertigo. This genus seems conspicuous by its 

 absence. Doubtless there are more than two species. 

 Can any reader give me any hints to find them? 



Vertigo edentula. Dinedor : Dormington. 



Vertigo antivertigo. Dormington. 



* Clausilia rugosa. Very common ; also vars. 

 gracilior, tumidula. 



* Clausilia laminata. Very rare. Doward ; Dor- 

 mington; "Leominster;" only single specimens. 



* Cochlicopa lubrica. Very common. 1 

 Cochlicopa tridens. Rare. Backbury Hill, among 



Mercuriale perennis. 



* Achatina acicula. Very rare. Among dead 

 leaves on Backbury Hill (only two specimens). 



* Carychium minimum. Common among dead 

 leaves. I have found this and many other species' 

 in abundance by shaking dead leaves over a sheet of 

 paper or a cloth, or by bringing home bagfuls of 

 rubbish for more leisurely examination. 



* Cyclostoma elegans. Common. 



In conclusion I may mention that the localities 

 quoted are either parishes, or well-known woods, hills, 

 or houses ; also, if any reader would care to know the 

 more exact locality of any species, I shall be most 

 happy to render all the assistance in my power ; and 

 should be glad if anyone would inform me of any sins 

 of commission and omission he may know of. 



[A. E. Boycott. 



The Grange, Hereford. 



NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. 



rj^HE HORSE, a Study in Natural History, 

 J- by William Henry Flower, C.B. (London : 

 Regan Paul & Co.). This is one of the now 

 famous modern-science series of books, edited by 

 Sir John Lubbock, and issued by the above firm. 

 They are all well got-up, printed with clear good 

 type on good paper. The horse is a favourite animal 

 all over the world, but nowhere more so than in 

 England, and there is nobody more capable of writing 

 about its anatomy and zoological history than Pro- 

 fessor Flower. Its genealogical descent is better 

 known than that of any other mammal, so that the 

 horse is the animal most referred to in support of the 

 theory of Evolution. The bones of its legs are a 

 museum of ancestral organs, many of them now 

 disused, others having been extraordinarily developed 

 at their expense. Into all these matters Professor 

 Flower enters in detail in the book before us, which 

 is practically a little monograph upon the horse. The 

 student of natural history could not study a move 

 delightful book. It is written in plain and practically 

 untechnical language. It contains only four lengthy 

 chapters, which are as follows : " The Horse's Place 

 in Nature — its Ancestors and Relations"; "The 

 Horse and its nearest existing Relations"; "The 

 Structure of the Horse, chiefly as bearing upon its 

 Mode of Life, its Evolution, and its Relation to other 

 Animal Forms — the Head and Neck " ; " The Struc- 

 ture of the Horse — the Limbs." The work is em- 

 bellished by twenty-six telling illustrations. 



The Realm of Nature, an Outline of Physiography, 

 by Dr. H. R. Mill (London : John Murray). This 

 is by far the best handbook to physical geography in 

 our language. It contains nineteen coloured maps, 

 and sixty-eight illustrations, and appendices which 

 give an account of the most important instruments 

 used in determining physiographical questions. The 

 last appendix is very usefully devoted to explanations 

 of the derivations of scientific terms. There are 

 seventeen chapters, at the end of each of which is a 

 list of books of reference. The wide range of Dr. 

 Mill's book may be gathered from the titles of the 

 chapters, which are as follows : " The Study of 

 Nature"; " The Substance of Nature"; "Energy, 

 the Power of Nature"; "The Earth a Spinning 

 Ball " ; " The Earth a Planet " ; " The Solar System 

 and Universe " ; " The Atmosphere " ; "Atmospheric 

 Phenomena"; " Climates of the World " ; "The 

 Hydrosphere " ; " The Bed of the Oceans" ; "The 

 Crust of the Earth"; "Action of Water on the 

 Land " ; " The Record of the Rocks " ; " The Con- 

 tinental Area"; "Life and Living Creatures"; 

 "Man in Nature." Dr. Mill's manual ought to be 

 in every library. It is a work not only to be read, 

 but to be referred to at all times. 



Manipulation of the Microscope-, by E. Bausch 

 (London : W. P. Collins). We are glad to see this 



