February, 19 14. 
The Irish Natiualist. 
29 
JOHN TEMPLETON'S NOTES ON 
IRISH LAND AND ERESH-WATER MOLLUSCA. 
BY A. VV. STELFOX, M.R.I. A. 
A manuscript bearing the title " Catalogue of Irish Shells, 
by John Templeton, Esqr.," in the handwriting of the late 
(j. C. Hyndman (?), of Belfast, has recently been discovered 
in a drawer of the Hyndman collection of shells now in the 
Belfast Municipal Museum. The following extracts relate 
to the land and fresh-water species mentioned in the MS., 
all of which is in the handwriting of Templeton. Here and 
there notes and marks have been added in pencil by Mr. 
Hyndman (?). The remainder of the MS. refers to marine 
species. 
List of Land and Fresh-water Shells mentioned in 
Templeton's Catalogue. 
"Mya." 
13. 1 " MaYgaritijera. [Margaritana margaritifera (Lz;z7z^'^)]. 
In the Lagan and other Irish Rivers." 
" Tellina." 
29. " Cornea. T. with a globose smooth horn coloured 
shell with transverse furrows. 
Lin. Trans. 8. 59. And Lin. Trans. 3. t. 13. 
f. 39, 40. Cyclas Lamarck. 
[Sphaerium corneum {Linne).^ 
Drains in the Bog Meadows. • 
amnica. T. with an oblique somewhat oval trans- 
versely furrowed shell having the hinge 
not exactly in the middle but most 
towars [sic] one side. 
T. rivalis, Lin. Trans. 3. 44. t. 13. f. 37- 
38. Vol. 8. 60. 
[Pisidium amnicum {Miiller).] 
Found in the Lagan near Lisburn. 27 Sep. 1817." 
1 The numbers refer to those in the MS. Some species, perhaps added 
at a later date, have no numbers prefixed. 
2 I give the modern synomyn as used in the List of L. and F. W 
Mollusks ot Irela^nd, Pro^eedmos RJ. Acad., xxix., Section B., no. 3, 191 1. 
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