74 I'KOCKEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIKTY. 



enjoy his new position in that city, for, after a lingering illness, he 

 peacefully passed away during the Summer of last year. 



It is as a concliologist we wish to speak of him in this place, but 

 that he was a man of great general culture and high principles may be 

 gathered from a very interesting memoir of him by his intimate friend, 

 Dr. W. Kobelt, published in the NachrichUhlatt der deutschen Malako- 

 zoologischen GeselUchaft of November last. To give an idea of 

 the extent of Moellendorlf's work, it may be stated that he wrote 

 about 2,000 pages upon conchological subjects, published in about 

 100 different memoirs and papers. These were printed in various 

 periodicals published in Germany, England, Russia, India, and 

 Australia, and principally treated upon the faunae of China, Loo 

 Choo, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, the Philippine Islands, Perak, 

 Kelantan, Annam, Tonkin, Siam, Java, Bongao, Sulu Islands, 

 Tenimber, Celebes, Talaut, New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, 

 Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Russia in Europe. Some of his 

 papers were valuable criticisms upon the works of others, and 

 catalogues of certain groups of land mollusca. He also wrote half 

 a dozen papers in conjunction with Messrs. Quadras, Kobelt, and 

 Rolle. Much of his work is very valuable to the students of land- 

 shells of those eastern countries which he knew so well, but, at the 

 same time, it must be stated how regrettable it is that so many of his 

 descriptions of species were issued without any illustrations. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Friday, 12th February, 1904. 

 E. R. Sykes, B.A., President, in the Chair. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



By S. I. Da Costa : Pletirodo7ita (enigma, Pecten RuscJienbergeri 

 (a new form from Japan), and some rare Bulimuli from Central 

 America, including the type-specimens of B. corticosus, B. Koppdi, 

 and B. Bacostce, a remarkably fine B. Bomheyanus, and the very rare 

 B. tenuilahris. 



By R. BuUen Newton : A collection of Quaternary shells from the 

 Pampean formation of South America, collected by Mr. W. F. Reid. 

 These were mostly marine shells, but are found in conjunction with 

 the remains of large land mammals, such as Megatherium and 

 Glyptodon. 



By H. B. Preston : A group of remarkably fine specimens of 

 jEtheria tubifera, Sow., from the upper Belgian Congo. 



By F. G. Bridgman : Examples of Oliva erythrostoma and its 

 varieties, together with a deformed specimen of the same species. 



By R. H. Burne : Instances of extreme individual variation. 



