PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. od 
The following were elected as Officers and Council for the year 1902 : 
President.—K. A. Smith, F.Z.8., etc. 
Vice-Presidents.—W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., etc.; Rev. Canon 
A. Merle Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S., ete.; E. R. Sykes, B.A., 
F.L.S., etc.; Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., etc. 
Treasurer.—J. H. Ponsonby, F.Z.S., etc. 
Secrectary.—h. H. Burne, B.A., F.Z.5., ete. 
Editor.—B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., ete. 
Other Members of Council.—Rey. RK. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S., ete. ; 
G. C. Crick, F.G.S., etc.; Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, 
F.R.S., etc.; G. K. Gude, F.Z.8., etc.; Professor G. B. 
Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., etc.; 8S. Pace, F.Z.S8., etc. 
Votes of thanks were passed to the Retiring Officers, the Auditors, 
and the Scrutineers. 
The President, Mr. EK. A. Smith, made some remarks on the supposed 
similarity in the Mollusca of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. He — 
dealt specifically with eleven species stated to be common to the 
two faunas, and expressed the view that the evidence of specific 
identity was not sufficiently strong to justify the conclusions that 
had been drawn. 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 
Professor Rater Tarr, F.G.8., etc., who joined this Society in 
1894, was born at Alnwick in 1840, and was educated at Cheltenham 
Training College, whence he went in 1857 to the Royal School of 
Mines. After teaching for a time at the Polytechnic he went to 
Belfast as teacher of Natural Science at the Philosophical Institution, 
where he principally interested himself in Botany, non-marine Con- 
chology, and Paleontology. In 1861 he became a Fellow of the 
Geological Society, and in March, 1864, obtained the post of Assistant 
Curator to that Society, and worked at their collection, especially 
the South African fossils. At the same time he did not neglect his 
botany, while mm 1866 he brought out his “Plain and easy account 
of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusks of Great Britain,’ which at the 
time was the best book of its kind. Such was the merit of his work 
in these different lines that he had the distinction of being elected an 
Associate of the Linnean Society in April, 1867. He was elected 
a Fellow of that Society in December, 1883, but withdrew in 1896. 
In 1867 he was sent by the Central America Association on an 
exploring expedition to Nicaragua, and in the succeeding year to the 
province of Guyana in Venezuela, the conchological results of which 
were contributed to the American Journal of Conchology. 
Subsequently he conducted mining classes at Bristol, and in 1868 
brought out his “Appendix” to 8. P. Woodward’s ‘‘ Manual of the 
Mollusca.” 
