50 PROCKKDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. A. S. Kenuard exhibited a fragmentary valve of Unto bafants, 

 Lam., from the Pleistocene of Swanscorabe, a species not hitherto 

 recorded from these Islands. Two other specimens had been forwarded 

 by him to Dr. Haas of Frankfurt a/M., who confirmed tlie specific 

 determination. 



OEDINAEY MEETING. 



Fridat, 12tii April, 1912. 

 R. BULLEN Newton, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. E. W. Vredenburg was elected a member of the (Society. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. "The genus Dosinia and its subdivisions." By A. J. Julves- 

 Browne, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



2. " On the generic name to be applied to the Venus islaiulica, 

 Linn." By E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 



3. " Note on Lapparia Parhi, Suter." By Henry Suter. 



4. " Characters of three new species of freshwater sliells from 

 Uruguay" and " Descriiitions of five new species of Limicolaria from 

 Britisli East Africa". By H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 



Tlie Rev. li. Ashington BuUen exhibited a series of living niollusca 

 collected by him in the island of Grand Canary, compi'ising Euparypha 

 Grasseti, Hclicella monilifera, Curacollina Farryi, and Folliciihis 

 folliculiis ; a piece of limestone rock containing Zonitoides mtmiscnlus, 

 from the Upper Pliocene, Warwick, Bermuda; and, on behalf of 

 Miss Dorothy Bate, Pleistocene cave shells from Mallorca and 

 Minorca. 



