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area which were not included in the list of Channel Islands 

 species published by Mr. Tomlin and myself, two years 

 ago, in the Journal of Conchology. These are as follows : — 



Testaeella haliotidea, Drap. Guernsey and Sark. Mr. Taylor states 

 that "in the British Isles this species is recorded as first noticed in 

 1801 by Dr. F. C. Lukis in his garden in Guernsey." Both T. scutulum 

 and T. Maugei are also recorded as occurring in the Sarniaii islands. 



Limax maximus, var. sylvatica, Morelet. Herm (Reeve, Brit. Moll. 1863, 

 p. 26 and fig.). 



Amalia gagates, var. pallidissima, Poll. St. Sampson's, Guernsey, Sep., 

 1891, B. Tomlin. Yar. bicolor, Tayl. St. Sampson's, Guernsey, Sep., 

 1891, B. Tomlin. The latter is the unnamed reddish-brown slug men- 

 tioned in our list above referred to, and this locality is the only British 

 one recorded for it in Taylor's Monograph. 



Helix aspersa, var. albo-fasciata, Jeff. A typical shell of this variety was 

 found this year at the Vale by Mrs. Marquand. First record for our 

 islands. 



In that branch of our work to which special attention 

 was directed in the first report, namely, the observation of 

 habits and life histories of marine animals, a start has at 

 last been made. 



In the early part of the summer a marine aquarium was 

 started at the States' Intermediate School in a tank kindly 

 lent by the Gruille-Alles Museum authorities. An attempt 

 was made to breed the Ormer ( Haliotis tuberculata) and 

 examine the structure and habits of the young mollusc ; 

 unfortunately the whole summer was taken up in discovering 

 and eliminating the conditions under which the animal would 

 not live in captivity ; but the experiments are be^g continued 

 by Dr. Fleure at Aberystwyth, and we hope to be more 

 successful next year, with previous failures to guide us. 

 Valuable assistance and advice have been most willingly 

 given during the experiments by Mr. Frank Slade, the 

 naturalist at the Horniman Museum, to whom we have been 

 able to send some Guernsey marine specimens (alive) for 

 the aquarium which he keeps at the Museum. 



During July Dr. Fleure made some interesting observa- 

 tions on the common Limpet {Patella vulgata) at Bordeaux 

 Harbour. He marked eight limpets and the spots to which 

 they were attached, and then moved them to distances of 

 a foot or more ; at the end of four days he found that 

 one had got back to its home, and four more had moved 

 as if to do so ; the other three were missing or unrecognisable, 

 because the paint had worn off. It had been previously 

 proved that on soft rocks, limpets have definite homes, and 

 this observation seems to suggest that the same holds for 



