430 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



December 7. 

 The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 

 Twenty-eight persons present. 

 Papers under the following titles were presented for publication : — 



"Descriptions of two new forms of Perideris," by Henry A. 

 Pilsbry. 



"Synopsis of the recent Psammobiidse of North America," by 

 W. H. Dall. 



' The Gerrhonotus of the San Lucan Fauna of Lower California 

 with diagnoses of other West American Species," by John Van 

 Den burgh. 



" The Petrifaction of Bones," by E. Goldsmith. 



December 14. 



The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 

 Forty-four persons present. 



December 21. 

 The President, Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., in the Chair. 

 Forty-six persons present. 



A paper entitled "Anatomical Notes on certain Western 

 American Helices," by Henry A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vanatta, was 

 presented for publication. 



The death of the Rev. Samuel Haughton of Dublin, Ireland, a 

 Correspondent, was announced. 



Additional Note on the Gastropod Genus Tatea, Tenison- Woods. 

 — Mr. H. A. Pilsbry offered the following remarks: Owing to 

 the incompleteness of our series of the " Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania," and to the omission of an entry in the "Zoo- 

 logical Record," an important note on Tatea, 1 by a corresponding 

 member of this Academy, was overlooked by me in dealing with 

 this genus in these Proceedings, p. 360. 



Professor Tate correctly refers Dardania Hutton, 1882, to Eaton- 

 iella, following Hutton ; 2 and he further includes Tatea in Eaton- 



1 On the classificatory position and synonyms of Eatoniella rufilabris, by 

 Professor Ralph Tate, F. L. S., F. G. S. 



2 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, IX, 1885, p. 940. 



