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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
from Periwinkles exposed for sale in Lynn. Mr. E. G. Barrett, 
who was kind enough to name them for me, says this species which 
is an introduction from Portugal has established itself at Burnham- 
on-Crouch. These present specimens came from the Thames Estuary. 
It is worth bearing in mind that Ostrea angulata may extend its 
distribution to the Norfolk Coast. — C. B. Plowright, M.D. 
Granite Boulder in the Parish of Guist, Norfolk. — Situated 
in a small gravel pit on the Sennowe Estate lying about 400 yards 
S.W.of the Ordnance Arms public house, on the Guistand Fakenham 
road. The boulder is 4 ft. 3 ins. long by 3 ft. 8 ins. wide at the 
widest, at the west end it is 2 ft. 6 ins. in height from the ground 
and at the east end 1 ft. 4 ins. The longer axis of the boulder lies 
W.S.W. and E.N.E. A small chip of it which was sent to the 
Geological Museum in Jermyn Street was said to be probably 
Scandinavian granite. When the sun is low the striations are 
very well marked by the shadows ; it is almost smooth on the 
upper surface and seems to be resting on the ground and not 
deeply embedded. — C. A. Hamond. 
Leaves from an Old Diary, ante , p. 453. — Referring to the 
Rev. Dr. Sutton’s contributions to Botanical Science (p. 455 second 
paragraph) Mr. Arthur Bennett is good enough to send me the 
following note. “You may like to know that Dr. Sutton contri- 
buted to Sowerby’s English Botany describing plates No. 20 — 568, 
&c. There is an obituary notice of him in the Linnean Society’s 
proceedings, vol. i. p. 341, May 2nd, 1848. His papers are also 
given in the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific papers, vol. v. 
p. 880. A. Richard established the genus Suttonia in his honour. 
The other numbers of English Botany that he contributed to were 
plates 41, 178, 398, 423, 562, 574, 782, 1691.”— T. Southwell. 
Emys orbicularis — The European Pond Tortoise. — A speci- 
men of this Tortoise was brought to me on February 19th, by 
a man working upon the Ludham marshes. It was dug out of the 
peat, where it was evidently hibernating. This species is no 
longer a native of Great Britain, although once upon a time it 
was an inhabitant of East Anglia, specimens having been found 
in the peat of the fens of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire contem- 
porary with the bones of the Beaver, Roedeer and Pelican (Gadow). 
Although reptiles are noted for longevity, it is scarcely probable 
