rUOCEKDINGS or THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIEXr. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 8th November, 1895. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, Sec.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Descriptions of new species of Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mol- 

 lusca from the Hadramaut, South Arabia." By J. Cosmo Melvill, M. A., 

 F.L.S., etc., and J. H. Ponsonby, F.Z.S., etc. 



2. "Notes on the Anatomy of Hanleya ahyssorum, M. Sars." By 

 E. H. Burne. 



3. "Description of Cassis Adcocki, a new species." By G. B. 

 Sowerby, F.L.S. , etc. 



4. " Description of a new species of Vifrina and new forms of 

 Helicidae, with a list of the Helicoid shells hitherto found in the 

 Canary Islands." By G. K. Gudc, F.Z.S., etc. 



5. " Description of Strejjtaxis paulus, a new species." By G. K. 

 Gude, F.Z.S., etc. 



The President called attention to, and made some remarks upon, 

 a portrait of Rondeletius, which had been presented by Dr. Woodward 

 to the Linneau Society. 



A letter from Mr. H. Fisher, of the Jackson -Harms worth Expe- 

 dition, written from winter quarters in Franz-Josef Land, was read. 



Specimens were exhibited by Mr. Melvill, Mr. Sowerby, and 

 Mr. Gude in illustration of their papers. 



Mr. Sowei'by also exhibited a remarkable shell from South Australia, 

 belonging- to the genus Cotnis (?). 



Mr. Da Costa exhibited from the Galapagos Is. : — Bulimulus nux, 

 Brod., B. inralidus, lleib., B. rugidos^is, Sow., B. tmifasciatus, Sow., 

 B. Bauri, Dall, B. amastj-oides, Ancey, Pleiiropyrgus Chemnitzioides, 

 Forbes, P. Ilnhdi, Stearns, Leptinnria CJiatJiamensis, Dall, Suceinea 

 Betf/'i, Smith, and Helicina nesiotica, Dall, all from Cliatham I. ; 

 Bulimulus eschariferus, Sow., and Suceinea Bettii, Smith, from 

 Charles I. ; Bulimulus olla, Dall, from Duncan I. ; B. tortuganus, 

 Dall, from Albemarle I. 



Mr. Moss exhibited a wlute specimen of Helix perylexa, Fer., from 

 Grenada. 



Mr. Sykes exhibited shells from a deposit at Blashenwell, Dorset. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



FiuDAy, 13th December, 1895. 



Prot. G. B. Howes, Sec.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Members of the Society : 11. 11. Burne, 

 (i. II. Clai)]). 



