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Donations.—The Chairman presented 50 specimens of land and 
fresh water shells found in the district; he laid on the table 
notes on Naias Graminea, and the report of the Botanical 
Exchange Club, as donations from Mr Arthur Bennett. 
Exhibits—Mr Rutherford exhibited a tree frog from India 
and a puss moth; Miss Robb exhibited a number of New 
Zealand plants and several articles of the Maori handiwork, also 
a few specimens of limestone and minerals from the neighbour- 
hood of Bristol. 
Alteration of Rule.—Notice having been given at last meeting 
by Mr Lennox, it was unanimously agreed to alter Rule I. so as 
to omit the word ‘scientific ” in the title of the Society. 
The Secretary reported that the Committee had decided to 
have an intermediate course of lectures during this session, on 
the third Friday of the month, and to purchase Science Gossip, 
the Scottish Naturalist, and the Micrographic Dictionary. The 
Committee’s decisions were unanimously approved of. 
CoMMUNICATIONS. 
I. A List of Kirkcudbright Mollusks. By Mr R. F. Couss, Vice- 
President, 
Last April, at the close of our Winter Session, I was asked to 
make a list of the Land and Fresh Water Mollusks belonging to 
our district. Thoroughly to comply with our Secretary’s request 
—to tabulate into some resemblance of the arrangement planned 
and set forth in the Catalogue issued by the Conchological 
Society all the species and forms of these interesting creatures 
likely to be or actually found in our locality—would occupy a 
great deal more than the leisure-hours of the two seasons at my 
disposal. I feel, therefore, that some apology is due from me, 
when I submit only these few mounted specimens, and can give 
names of only some 44 species out of a total of 132 admitted as 
British. Two things have caused this—the limited area to which 
I have confined my researches, and the fact of so many of the 
mollusks being minute, and, without good typical specimens for 
comparison, difficult to distinguish. Many of them also are 
numerous in their genus, ¢.g., Vertigo, with eleven species and 
five varieties—some of them one-fifth the size of a grain of rice ; 
Helix, which has 25 species and about 112 varieties; and 
Limnea, perhaps the most ubiquitous and prolific of all our 
aquatic mollusks. Judging by the recently published census of 
