THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



L1NNEAN SOCIETY 



OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



FIRST MONTHLY MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Monday, 25th JANUARY, 1875. 



William Macleay, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 



Mr. Masters pi-oposed, and Mr. Ramsay seconded the nomina- 

 tion of F. Gr. Waterhouse, Esq., South Australia, as a member of 

 the Society. Mr. Ramsay proposed, and Mr. Bradley seconded 

 the nomination of Douglas Helsham, Esq., Cook's River. 



PAPERS READ. 



Mr. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., read the following paper, describing 

 fourteen new species of Terrestrial, Fluviatile, and Marine Shells 

 from Australia and the Solomon Islands : — 



*1. — Helix (Dorcasia) Blackalli. 



Shell deeply, rather largely and openly umbilicated, globosely 

 depressed, very thin, translucent, light brown, irregularly striated 

 with raised waived strise, irregularly studded with numerous close 

 set obtuse short bristles ; whorls, 5, roundly convex, the last large, 



* The species marked with an asterick I have placed in the Cabinet of the Linnean 

 Society. 



