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to inhabit the L.M.B.C. district up to 1G85. To this has 

 still to be added the 105 new forms found during this last 

 summer and referred to in the present report. 



A melancholy interest attaches to one of the papers in 

 Vol. III. of ''The Fauna," viz., The Keport upon the 

 Testaceous Mollusca. It was the last piece of work of 

 the late Mr. F. Archer who was a member of the Com- 

 mittee from the beginning, and has always taken an 

 active interest in the work. In addition to all more 

 personal feeling of loss, his ready sympathy, kindly 

 criticism, and sturdy common sense will be greatly 

 missed at the Biological meetings and on the collecting 

 expeditions. Mr. Archer's place on the committee has 

 been filled up by the election, on June 3rd, of Mr. John 

 Vicars. With Surgeon-Colonel S. Archer's sanction I 

 took charge of his brother's note books for the purpose of 

 having his w^ork on the Mollusca published. Fortunately 

 Mr. Brockton Tomlin of Chester was kind enough to 

 undertake the responsible work of putting the notes and 

 records in proper form for the printer. It is a matter of 

 great satisfaction to the Committee that one so eminently 

 qualified both as a conchologist and also from his know- 

 ledge of Mr. F. Archer's collections and notes and 

 methods was found willing to undertake this work and 

 carry it out without delay. 



The Mollusca of the future L.M.B.C. expeditions will 

 be worked up and reported upon by Mr. Alfred Leicester, 

 Priory Gardens, Birkdale, who will gladly receive and 

 acknowledge records of specimens from other conchol- 

 ogist s in the district. 



We have suffered another loss in the death, quite 

 recently, of Mr. T. J. Moore the last President of the 

 Biological Society. Mr. Moore's poor health for the last 

 few years has prevented him from taking any active part 



