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REV. H. FRIEND ON SOME NORFOLK ANNELIDS. 
VIII. 
SOME NORFOLK ANNELIDS. 
(With special reference to Sutton Broad.) 
By the Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. 
Corn?minicated by Mr. Robert Gurney. 
Read 2jth February, igi2. 
So far as I am aware no attempt has ever yet been made to 
publish an account of the Oligochsets, or Earthworms and 
fresh-water Annelids, of this county. It is now two-and- 
twenty years since I first began to take notes on the subject, 
and as I had an opportunity during last August, through the 
courtesy of Sir Eustace and Mr. Robert Gurney, of studying 
the subject somewhat more fully I here present the results 
of my observations. My most recent researches have been 
aided by a Government Grant, by means of which I have 
been enabled to add considerably to our previous knowledge 
of this branch of science. 
On July 3rd, 1890, Dr. C. B. Plowright wrote me as follows : — 
“ I see by Science Gossip you are interested in worms. Do 
you know what the enclosed are ? They came out of a water- 
tap at Lynn. They are quite alive now, and if you put them 
in a bottle half full of water they will climb up the sides 
above the water with great vigour. 
Unfortunately I have kept no note of my reply, and am 
unable to say with certainty what the species may have been. 
Nearly two years later, however, I had a further letter from 
Dr. Plowright, of King’s Lynn, dated April 8th, 1892, as 
follows: — “Are you still on worms? I wish you could tell 
me what the specimens sent herewith are. They occur in 
our Lynn drinking water, and are evidently aquatic, as they 
have lived some days in a bottle. They are alive now, and 
I hope will arrive so ; but I expect they will be glad of a 
change of water by the time you get them.” 
