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FIELD NOTES. 



FISHES. 



Fishes in Cumberland, 1708. — Bishop Nicolson in his 

 diary for 1708 (Trans, Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Archaeol. 

 Soc, Vol. 4, N.S., 1904, p. 29) mentions he was in London on 

 3rd April. ' Char — Thence to Mr. Solicitor Montague with my 

 thanks . . . and [he] will accept my help and another Char- 

 pye.' To this the editor (Bishop Ware) appends a note — ' A list 

 of letters appended to the diary gives on 22nd March 1707-8, 

 ' Sir Ja. Montague with a pot of Chars ; and thanks for all his 

 favours.' Therefore 'Char pye ' was the same thing which is 

 now known as potted Char. On 14th May Nicolson notes 'A 

 Sturgeon from Bowness,' i.e., Bowness-on-Solway, and on i6th 

 June he went ' to see the fishing at Beaumont and Mr. Reed's 

 coops : where Salmon sold at 22d., Gilse at 6d., and Esk-Trout 

 at 3d. Strong east wind brought in the Herring, and sent the 

 Salmon o'roving.' — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, April 1904. 







MOLLUSCS. 



Lincolnshire Mollusca. — On 15th April, a lovely mild day, 

 with gentle rain and south-west wind, my father and I visited 

 the Thirty-foot bank, which is a mixture of arable peat and 

 Oxford clay. On it we found Helix nemoralis, H. arbiLstorinUy 

 H. cantiana, Avion ater (young only), and Agrioliiniix agrestis, 

 out feeding. One specimen of the first species was a perfect 

 liheLLida, 12345 ; it is not common here. The ordinary nemoralis 

 of this rock-soil mixture is a light green olivacea, with uncertain 

 banding. — Dennis M. C. Woodruffe Peacock. 



Shells at Hornsea fAcvQ.— Pisidiiun henslo^vanum , P. 

 cinerenm, and P. nitidiun have been identified by Mr. J. W. 

 Taylor amongst material collected in Hornsea Mere on various 

 occasions during the last ten years. Mr. C. Reid in ' Geology of 

 Holderness ' recorded the first of these and probably the second 

 [P. casertaniim) ; the third has not been previously recorded. 

 The following also occur round the Mere but have not found 

 a place in published lists : — Arion circiiniscriptus, Hyalinia 

 crystallina, Helix rotundata, Succinea elegans. — T. Petch, i6th 

 April 1904. 



1904 June 3. 



