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ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 13th May, 1904. 



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



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On a new form of Carboniferous Nautiloid {Amphoreopsis 

 paucicamerata) from the Isle of Man." By G. C. Crick, F.Gr.S. 



2. " List of Mollusca collected during the Commission of H.M.S. 

 'Waterwitch' in the China Seas, 1900-1903, with descriptions of 

 new species." By Surgeon K. Hurlstone Jones, M.B., K.N., and 

 H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 



3. " Notes on the genus Anoma, Albers." By E. R. Sykes, B.A. 



4. " Kew Land-Shells from New Zealand." By Henry Suter, 



Specimens were exhibited by the following : — 



F. Gr. Bridgman: A series of Olives belonging to the ^^reticularis 

 group." The exhibitor pointed out that Oliva reticulata, Lam., is 

 connected by a complete chain of transitional forms to 0. reticularis. 

 Lam., on the one hand, and to 0. hepatica. Lam., on the other. 



H. B. Preston : A specimen of Oliva Jiilieta, with abnormal colour- 

 arrangement on the newer parts of the shell. 



5. Pace (on behalf of the Marine Biological Association) : Living 

 specimens of Nudibranchs. 



E. R. Sykes : A distorted example of Aulopoma from Ceylon. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 10th June, 1904. 



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



James John Walker, R.N., was elected a member of the Society. 



A discussion (summarised, p. 130), in which the President, Dr. W. T. 

 Blanford, Mr. E. A. Smith, Mr. Bullen Newton, and others spoke, took 

 place upon two debatable points of nomenclature. 



The following communications wei'e read : — 



1. "On Damayantia Sinitki, Collinge & Godwin- Austen." By 

 Lieut. -Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S. 



2. "Descriptions of twenty-eight species of Gastropoda from the 

 Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea, dredged by Mr. F. W. 

 Townsend, 1903-1904 " By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. 



3. " Conns Coromandelicus, its probable affinities and systematic 

 position in the family Conida?." By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. 



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