Helix pomatia

Abstract

IN two of the localities mentioned for this snail—Dorking, Surrey; and Woodford, Northamptonshire—there seems some reason to suspect it to be a modern introduction. From 1849 to 1852 I lived within two miles of Woodford, and often found the shells in a small wood known as Woodford Shrubbery. It was commonly said in the neighbourhood at that time that the snails were brought from abroad by the gentleman—I think General Arbuthnot—who had formed the Shrubbery some thirty years before that date.