NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
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Vitrea nitida
Punctum pygmaeum
Sphyradium edentulum
Pyramidula rotundata
Hygromia rufescens
,, granulata
,, hispida
Helicella caperata
,, virgata
,, itala
,, cantiana
Helicigona lapicida
,, arbustorum
Helix aspersa
,, hortensis
,, nemoralis
Vallonia pulchella
Buliminus obscurus
Pupa cylindracea
,, muscorum
Vertigo pygmea
Clausilia bidentata
,, laminata
Limnaea palustris
„ pereger
,, auricularia
,, truncatula
Ancylus fluviatilis
Bythinia tentaculata
Valvata piscinalis
„ cristata
Unio pictorum
,, tumidus
Anodonta cygnaea
Sphaerium corneum
Pisidium amnicum
„ fontinale
,, pusillum
,, nitidum
Planorbis fontanus
,, albus
,, spirobis
,, vortex
,, carinatus
,, marginatus
,, contortus.
We would take this opportunity of thanking Mr. French for
thus placing his specimens at our service, and we trust that his
labours in the natural history of his own district may be imitated
by many members of the Essex Field Club, and that thus
many of the minor problems which confront the naturalist of
to-day may be solved.
NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
ZOOLOGY.
MAMMALIA.
Red Deer Antlers used as Food.—According to the Moscow corres-
pondent of the Standard Oct. 25th, 1897, a small Commission, sent by the
Russian Imperial Geographical Society to investigate the condition of the
Red Deer in the region of the Altai Mountains, has just returned to
St. Petersburg. "The stags are reported by sportsmen to be of unusual size,
much exceeding those known in any part of Europe. Shooting expeditions
in these regions, however, have failed, at least so far as the Red Deer are
concerned, owing to the practice among the natives of killing the stags while