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MUSEUM NOTES.
I.—PLEISTOCENE NON-MARINE MOLLUSCA FROM
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.
[The small collection of Mollusca described in the following
notes has been kindly arranged and collated by Mr. Webb, and was
exhibited at the meeting of the Club at Birch Hall, near Colchester,
on June 23rd, 1894. It is intended from time to time to print
"Notes" of this nature, descriptive of various specimens or collec-
tions in or added to the museum, as they may be determined or
arranged. Such details will be interesting as records of our
collections, and will afford valuable data for the future compilation
of a catalogue of the museum.—Ed.]
THE shells now catalogued were collected by the late John Brown,
F.G.S., of Stanway, and were presented by him many years
ago to the "Essex and Chelmsford Museum." On the handing over
of the museum to the Essex Field Club, the specimens were taken
from the midst of a collection in which they had been inserted with
other pleistocene shells from Copford, and where they were at the
tender mercies of two large Echini from the chalk which rolled over
them on the slightest provocation. The series under consideration
was easily distinguished from the Copford specimens owing to its
having been mounted on cards in trays, whereby also it had escaped
somewhat from the roving Echini, while the others, merely glued on
to wooden tablets, were in most cases completely pulverised. Many-
Walton shells were found intact in the trays under their respective
cards, and help was obtained from a printed slip (though where it
was published, if at all, has not yet been ascertained), giving a list of
the species, and stating that they were found "with the fossil horns
above at a part of the Essex coast five miles southward of Walton
Naze."
The writer has carefully worked through the specimens, and has
had the benefit of the opinion of his friend Mr. B. B. Woodward,
F.G.S., who has specially given his attention to Pleistocene
Mollusca. The list will now stand as follows :—
GASTROPODA.
PULMONATA.
Stylomatophora.
Helix pulchella, Mull.
H. nemoralis, Linn.