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attached to an Anfipafhes from Japan ; and a living example of Helix 

 Hoivardl from South Australia. 



Mr. Wallis Kew exhibited dead shells of Crepidula fornicata col- 

 lected by Mr. A. Smith, of Grimsby, on the beach near that town. 



The Secretary, on behalf of !Mr. Sturges Dodd, exhibited specimens 

 of Anomia, Crepidula, and JJarhatia, which came over alive with 

 American oysters. 



Mr. S. Pace exhibited specimens of the shell and egg-capsules of 

 Hassa incmssata from Ringstcad, Dorset. 



Mr. Tegetmeicr exhibited specimens of Planorbia corneus, from which 

 the upper halves of the whorls were absent, and which were found 

 dead, but fresh, at the roots of rushes in ponds near Weybridge. 



Mr. G. K. Gude exhibited specimens of Helix nemoralis, with six 

 and eight bands, from Worcestershire and Acton. 



Mr. W. Moss exhibited photographs of the shell of Cylindrella 

 Trinitaria, and of the raduloe of Gihhula cineraria, Ampullaria Wesley- 

 ensis, Fissurella reticulata, Glandina algira, and Ncrita Ascensionis. 



OEDINAEY MEETING. 

 Feiday, December 8th, 1893. 



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Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Members of the Society : — Col. C. E. 

 Beddome, W. T. Bednall, G. Berthelin, F. B. Billinghurst, A. Bonnet, 

 John Brazier, Henry Bumup, J. D. Butterell, B. Cairns, J. G. 

 Chaplin, Dr. J. C. Cox, J. Crawford, B. Sturges Dodd, John Farquhar, 

 Miss A. C. S. Foster, Arnold \. Hcnn, F. W. Hutton, H. K. Jordan, 

 Dr. W. Kobelt, Miss M. Lodder, Dr. E. von Martens, Marquis A. de 

 Monterosato, B. Murdoch, G. B. Pritchard, J. F. Quekett, J. R. 

 Eagsdale, E. C. Stump, Eev. G. W. Taylor, J. W. Taylor, J. H. 

 Vanstone, Mrs. Waterhouse, and C. A. Wright. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Description of a new species of Engina from the Loyalty 

 Islands," by J. C. Melvill, F.L.S., etc. 



2. "Descriptions of new shells from the Mauritius," by G. B. 

 Sowerby, F.L.S., etc. 



3. " The Myology of some Pulmonate Mollusca considered as a 

 distinctive feature in the discrimination of genera, etc," by W. E. 

 Collinge. 



4. " Descriptions of two new Land-shells from Tenerife," by J. H. 

 Ponsonby. F.Z.S., and E. B. Sykes, F.Z.S. 



5. "Remarks on the suggested alteration of the generic name 

 Clamilia;' by E. R. Sykes, F.Z.S. ; Avith a reply by G. F. Harris, 

 F.G.S. 



[abstkact.] 

 Mr. Sykea, in reply to the paper read by ^Ir. Harris at the previous 

 meeting, contended that Da Costa's first reference to such a group as 

 his Strovibiformis was in 177G ("Elements of Conchology," p. 198, etc.), 



