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The followiufi; specimens were also exhibited : — 



By E. A. Smith, l.S.O. : A collection of deep-sea Mollusca from the 

 Indian Ocean. These, -which formed part of the dredgings of the 

 "Investigator," included some enormous examples of Lentalium and 

 Solenomya, and several other most interesting forms. 



By the Eev. E. Ashington Bullen : Examples of the Mollusca used 

 as food in Victoria, Australia; specimens of marine shells attached to 

 mammalian Pleistocene bones found in East Crete by Miss Dorothy 

 Bate ; and a series of land shells collected near Avignon. 



By J. E. Cooper: 8ome clusters of Crepidula fornicata (L.), from 

 the lliver Crouch, Essex. Mr. Cooper pointed out the great increase 

 in the numbers of this species in Essex waters during the last thirteen 

 years. In the clusters shown the struggle for foothold had evidently 

 been severe, in one case as many as nine specimens being piled one 

 above another. Mr. Cooper also showed some shells of Vtvipara 

 mvipara (L.), inhabited by hermit crabs. These had been taken in 

 crab-pots at Swanage. 



Mr. A. S. Kennard: On behalf of Mr. R. J. Welch, a series of 

 lantern slides illustrating Irish shells and the localities in which the 

 several species are found. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 9th March, 1906. 



B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "Descriptions of thirty-one Gastropoda and one Scaphopod from 

 the Persian Gulf and Gulf 'of Oman." By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., 

 E.L.S. 



2. " Capuhis lissus, Smith, as type of a proposed new subgenus 

 {Malluvium) of AmaliJiea, Schumacher." By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., 

 E.L.S. 



3. " J^otes on a Holocene deposit at Harlton, Cambridgeshire." 

 By Eev. E. Ashington Bullen, F.L.S. 



4. "On a small collection of Land and Fresh-water Shells from 

 Uganda, with descriptions of a new species of Martensia and two new 

 species of Limicolaria?^ By H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 



5. "On new species of Polvplacophora from South Australia." By 

 W. T. Bednall and E. H. V. Matthews. 



Mr. E. A. Smith, I.S.O., exhibited some living examples of Testacelh 

 Jtaliotidca, collected by Mr. H. S. Cousens at Wanstead, Essex. 



