PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 133 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 13th March, 1896. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, Sec.L.S., Presideut, iu the Chair. 



The following commimications were read: — 



1. "On some Fresh- water Shells from the Island of Kolgucv." 

 By E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 



2. " Notes on the Mollusca from a Rainwash at Darenth, Kent." 

 By A. S. Kennard. 



3. " On the Aperture of a Baculite from the Lower Chalk of 

 Chardstoeli, Somerset." By. G. C. Crick, F.G.S., etc. 



4. "The Female Organs of Neritina Jiuviatilis, Linn." By Prof. 

 G. Gilson. 



5. "Report on a collection of Polyplacophora from Port Phillip, 

 Yictoria." By E. E,. Sykes, B.A., F.Z.S., etc. 



]\Ir. W. Croiich exhibited a specimen of Pliolas cnsjMifa, Linn., and 

 a living specimen of Pctricola pholadiformis^ Lam., both from the 

 Crouch River. 



Mr. H. Fulton exhibited a collection of the recent species of the 

 genus Amphidromus containing five-sixtlis of the known species ; also 

 a specimen of Extra extra, Jouss., from the Red Sea. 



Mr. A. Sich exhibited a living sinistral specimen of Pyramidula 

 rotundata, Miill., which had been found in a garden at Chiswick 

 on 24tli August, 1895, and had since added one-eighth of an inch to 

 its shell. 



Specimens in illustration of their respective papers were exhibited 

 by A. S. Kennard, E. A. Smith, and E. R. Sykes ; the last-mentioned 

 also exhibited forms of Achatinella Mighelsiana, Pfr., from Molokai, 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



The President laid on the table, and called attention to, the record 

 by Mr. Haswell of the occurrence of a ]N"eomenian off Sydney, JST.S.W. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 10th April, 1896. 



Prof. G. B. IIoAVES, Sec.L.S., President, iu the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On a collection of Land-shells from South Celebes." By E. A. 

 Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 



2. " Abstract account of Mens. Bernard's paper on the Morphology 

 of the Hinge in Pelecypoda." By B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., etc. 



3. "Descriptions of new species of minute Marine Shells from 

 Bombay." By J. C. Melvill, F.L.S., etc. 



4. "A new Helicoid Land-shell from New Zealand." By E. R. 

 Sykes, B.A., F.Z.S., etc. 



Mr. S. Pace exhibited the radula and shell of Columhella sinuafa, 



