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quoted from other parts of India by Godwin-Austen and others ; he 

 himself had recorded its occurrence in the heart of Madagascar, whilst 

 Melvill and Fonsonby had described it as a new sj^ecies from the 

 Transvaal under the name of Helix {Trochonanina) Pretorierms, and the 

 British Museum had received a single specimen from Ashanti collected 

 by Mr. R. Austen Freeman. The specimens now exhibited came from 

 Tomlia in British Central Africa. 



This would appear to be the only instance of a land-shell which was 

 common to India and Africa, and therefore lends but very slight sup- 

 port to the theory of a former land connection between those parts of 

 the world. Species, said to belong to the genus, have been described 

 from China, Java, and the Philippine Islands, and certain Bornean and 

 Australian species had been referred to it. 



Mr. Smith also exhibited specimens in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. G. B. Sowcrby exhibited a large specimen of Aryonauta argo, 

 L., from the Moluccas. 



Mr. E. II. Sykes exhibited specimens in illustration of his paper. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, Dth Apkil, 1897. 



Dr. H. "Woodward, F.R.S., etc., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. T. H. May was elected a member of the Society. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. "The Mollusca of the English Cave-Deposits." Bv A. S. Kennard 

 and B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., etc. 



2. " Eevision of the jVew Zealand Athoracophoridfc." By H. Suter. 



3. " The Land Mollusca of Stewart Island." By H. Suter. 



Mr. G. B. Sowerby exhibited a long series of land-shells from Cuba ; 

 also a large specimen of Voluta mam ilia. Gray, from Tasmania. 



Mr. A. S. Kennard and Mr. B. B. AVoodward exhibited specimens 

 in illustration of their joint paper, and Pisidium milium, Held., from 

 the Holocene deposits in the Kennet Valley, near Newbury, Berks ; 

 Mr. Woodward also exhibited specimens of Patida Cumherlandiana, 

 Lea, fi"om the original habitat. 



On behalf of Mr. E. H. Matthews were exhibited six- and seven- 

 valved Chitons from S. Australia. (Cf. ante, p. 154.) 



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