PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 307 
On the motion of Mr. Fulton, seconded by Mr. Reynell, the foregoing 
was adopted as the Annual Report of the Society. 
The following were elected as Officers and Council for the year 19038: 
President.—E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 
Vice-Presidents.—W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S ; Professor W. A. 
Herdman, F.R.S.; E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S.; H. Wood- 
ward, LL.D., F.R.S. 
Treasurer.—J. H. Ponsonby, F.Z.S. 
Secretary.—R. H. Burne, B.A., F.Z.S. 
Editor.—B. B. Woodward, F.L.S. 
Other Members of the Council.—G. C. Crick, F.G.S.; Lieut.-Col. 
H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.; G. K. Gude, F.Z:S.; 
Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S.; Rev. Canon Merle 
Norman, D.C.L., F.R.S.; W.G. Ridewood, D.Sc., F.L.S. 
On the motion of Mr. Bullen Newton, seconded by Mr. Manger, 
a vote of thanks was passed to the Retiring Members of Council, the 
Auditors, and the Scrutineers. 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 
Ottver Cottert, F.R.M.S., who died somewhat suddenly at Colombo 
on 13th June, 1902, from an attack of dysentery, when only 35 years 
old, became a member of this Society in 1896. 
While actively engaged in his vocation as a tea planter he did much 
excellent scientific work, especially among the Mollusca. 
He contributed only one paper to our ‘* Proceedings,”’ and that was 
a ‘‘ Description of Streptaxis gracilis, n.sp., from Ceylon” (vol. 11, 
1898, p. 1), but he most generously placed material at the disposal 
of his co-workers: a number of new species discovered by him have 
been described by Lieut.-Col. Godwin-Austen and Mr. E. R. Sykes, 
and the important investigation ‘‘On the Anatomy of the genus 
Acavus, Montfort” by Mr. W. B. Randles (vol. iv, 1900, p. 103) was 
undertaken at his suggestion.and on material supplied by him, while 
researches on the anatomy of the genus Cataulus are at present being 
conducted by Miss Lettice Digby ' on specimens collected by him. 
JoHNnN CxraveLt Mansrn-Pieypett, F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., who was an 
original member of this Society, was born in 1817. He completed his 
education at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and on the death of his 
father in 1863 succeeded to the family estates in Dorset. Keenly 
interested in natural history, especially that of his own county, he 
published works on the Flora (including a section on the Geology), 
the Birds, and the Mollusca of Dorset, while he was chief founder 
in 1875 and afterwards President of the Dorset Natural History and 
Antiquarian Field Club, to the ‘‘Proceedings”’ of which he was a con- 
stant contributor. The Dorset County Museum was also very largely 
1 See her preliminary note, ate, p. 261. 
