ex. Proceedings, 



conspicuous animal, it lived underground and was nocturnal in 

 its habits, so that its capture was very much a matter of 

 chance. It was a carnivorous animal, eating worms. It was 

 not at all infrequently met with in London gardens. He (Mr. 

 Mennell) had seen or heard of specimens being taken at 

 Peckham, Leytonstone, and numbers of places round, and it 

 seemed to have a partiality for old gardens. He had no doubt 

 whatever it would be found in this neighbourhood. As to 

 introducing alien species into this locality, he wished to 

 protest against it as likely to give great trouble to future 

 conchologists. In Botany it was considered a distinctly 

 immoral practice. He hoped Mr. McKean would not attempt 

 it. 



Further remarks were made by Messrs. F. Thompson, C. C. 

 MoRLAND, the Rev. H. F. Blackett, and the President. 

 At the conclusion a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. 

 McKean for his valuable paper. 



The following is a list of the objects exhibited ; — By Mr. 

 McKean, a large collection of land and freshwater shells 

 entirely from the Surrey district including many rare and 

 beautiful forms ; by Mr. Low- Sergeant, a collection of British 

 land and freshwater shells to illustrate Mr. McKean's paper ; 

 by Mr. Edward Lovett, under a microscope, leaf of drosera 

 rotiindifolia (sundew, mounted naturally), series of helix 

 pomatia, from Caterham, and a rare boring crustacean, 

 calUaunassa subterranea ; by the Rev. H. F. Blackett, land 

 shells and plants from Mentone ; by Mr. E. B. Sturge, large 

 echinoderm from off Scarborough ; by the Rev. George 

 Bailey, fine fossil vertebra of whale. Red Crag, Oxenford; by 

 Mr. Klaassen, interesting series of rocks from the Cornwall 

 district, including specimens of kaolin or china-clay ; by Mr. 

 Collyer, case of natural history specimens from Australia. 



Ordinary Meeting, nth October, 1882. 

 Philip Crowley, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. 



The following gentleman was balloted for and duly elected a 

 member of the Club : — George Henry Leresche. 



The President read a letter which he had received from 

 Mrs. Flower, thanking the Club for its expression of sympathy 

 with her in her late bereavement. 



The President announced also that " Studies in Micro- 

 scopical Science," Nos. i to 22, were now in the library. 



The following donations were announced : — Address of the 

 President of the British Association, 1882, presented by Mr. 



