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ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 12th May, 1905. 



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



H. 0. Lange was elected a member of the Society. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. "Notes on Pleistocene and Recent Shells from Crete." By 

 the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



2. "Ifotes on Land and Fresh-water Shells from the Alhambra 

 Ditch, Granada, Andalucia, Spain ; on Recent Land Shells from various 

 localities near Carmona, Province of Se\411a ; and on Land, Fresh- 

 water, and Marine Shells from Holocene deposits, Carmona." By the 

 Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



3. "Description of a new species of Vitrea from Greece." Bj* 

 E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 



4. " Descriptions of new forms of Marginellidse and Pleurotomidae." 

 By E. R. Sykes, B.A. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



By E. R. Sykes : Specimens of Keptunea despecta, Tritonoftisus 

 Islandicm, and Bucciyiofmus Berniciensis, from off the west coast of 

 Ireland. This apparently is the first record of the capture of living 

 specimens of Neptmiea despeda in the British seas. 



By R. H. Burne : An example of EpMppodonta Macdougalli. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 16th June, 1905. 



E. A. Smith, I.S.O., in the Chair. 



C. Biilow was elected a member of the Society. 



J. E. S. Moore, A.R.C.S., delivered a short lecture upon the 

 Prosobranchiata, and gave reasons for the separation of the group 

 into two main subdivisions — the hypoathroid and epiathroid — based, 

 in the first instance, upon the an-angement of the ganglia in the 

 central nervous system. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On the extension of the genus Macrochlamys to the Island of 

 Mauritius." By Lieut.-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S. 



"^j. " On the MoUusca procured during the ' Porcupine ' Expeditions, 

 1869-1870. Supplemental Kotes, Part II." By E. R. Sykes, 

 B.A., F.L.S. 



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