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mus,^ Succlnea, Pupa, Planorbis, Limneus,Physa,VaU 
vata, and Palud'ma ; but the various species including 
probably many non-descripts, require further and more 
minute elucidation, and will doubtless receive it from 
some of our friends who are attached to this depart- 
ment of Natural History. I shall, therefore, close my 
observations in the zoological department by remark- 
ing that the fresh-water mussel, Anodan cygneus, in 
numerous varieties, is found abundantly in the Teme 
and Severn and their tributary streamlets, and that the 
painters mussel, Mysca pictorum, is also to be found 
on the shores of the last-named river. I shall now 
proceed to notice the succeeding divisions of our 
intended investigations. 
III. Botany. A task of no ordinary pleasure 
awaits your Botanical Committee ; for what can be 
more delightful than the investigations which it will 
be their duty to encourage into all the beauties of the 
vegetable world. Teeming as this county does with 
vegetable productions, and richly clothed as are its 
hills and dales with flowers and plants, they never 
can be at a fault for objects to which their pursuits 
may be directed. 
On the limestone hills ; in the woods, in the bogs 
and morasses of this fertile county, the botanist will 
ever find ample recompense for his toil. To the pur- 
ple-tinted mountain of Malvern, every one who has 
* The curious Bulimus tuberculatus, is said by Dr. Turton to be found in " woods 
about Pershore, in Worcestershire." Turton' s Manual of Land and Fresh-water 
Shells of the British Jsla)ids, p. 82. 
