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Carter : Clans ilia rolpliii in Lmcolnshire. 



Mr. Roebuck dredged a shallow pond and found Aplexa hyp- 

 novum, Planorbis nautileus, and Pisidinm pusillum. 



It may be of interest to mention that this wood was once 

 part of the possessions of the father of the celebrated Martin 

 Lister, whom we rightly regard as one of the pioneers of natural 

 history observations. 5 Being- pre-Linnean, this eminent man 

 had not the advantage of the bi-nominal designations with which 

 we are now so familiar. In referring to the mollusc we now 

 call Cyclostoma elegans, for instance, he wrote in his ' Historian 

 Animalium Angliae,' 1678 : Cochlea cinerea, interdum leviier 

 rufescens, striata, operculo testaceo, and for our Hyalinia fulva, 

 Buccinum parvum sive Trochilus sylvaticns agri Lincolniensis. 

 He records the occurrence of both these animals in Burwell 

 Woods, in which place both were re-discovered — more than 200 

 years afterwards — in 1886-7." Lister also describes our Helix 

 lapicida under the title of Cochlea pulla, sylvatica spin's in aciem 

 depressis, and says that it is an elegant and rare shell, and that 

 he found it in the woods of Lincolnshire. 



In Grisel Bottom we found a six-leaved specimen of Herb- 

 paris (Paris qaadrifolia) in bloom ; and I gathered the Tooth- 

 wort (Lathrcea squamaria), which was of special interest, as it 

 had not been previously recorded for the district. The day 

 after our ramble, Mr. Kew, in these same woods, re-found an 

 interesting little acquaintance of a former year — the land- 

 planarian (Rhynchodemus terrestris), the only native representa- 

 tive in these Islands of the terrestrial planarian worms. 



5 R. W. Goulding, Martin Lister, Lincolnshire Archaeological and Archi- 

 tectural Society Report, 1900, Vol. 25, p. 339. 



6 H. W. Kew, Cyclostoma elegans re-discovered in North Lincolnshire, 

 Naturalist, 1886, p. 347 ; H. W. Kew, Zonites fulviis re-discovered in its 

 ancient locality in Lincolnshire, 'Journal of Conchology,' 1887, Vol. 5, p. 199. 



NOTE on MOLLUSCA. 



New Locality for Clausilia rolphii in Lincolnshire. — On nth May, 

 when passing- the chalk pit once famous for Marbled White Butterflies, by 

 the side of London Road, near Kenwick Bar, I went in, began turning 

 over lumps of chalk, etc. Under one lump I found a fine specimen of 

 Clausilia rolphii, and another under a piece of wood. This pit is about 

 a mile north-west from the nearest locality, Maltby Wood, where this 

 species has previously been found. Besides CI. rolphii I found Arion aler, 

 A. minimus, Agriolimax agrestis, Hyalinia cellaria, H. alliaria, Helix 

 rotundata, H. hispida, H. pulchella v. costata, and Cochlicopa lubrica. — C. S. 

 Carter, 8, Bridge Street, Louth, 12th May 1902. 



Naturalist. 



