148 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 6th April, 1900. 



W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On the Genus Acavus" : (a) "From an Anatomical Stand- 

 point," by W. B. Randies, B.Sc, etc.; (b) "From a Conchologkal 

 Standpoint," by E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



2. "Description of Bulimulm DuMnfieldi, n.sp., from Parana, 

 Brazil." By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., etc. 



3. " Notes on the Anatomy of Neptuneopsis GilchrisU, Sby., 

 Volutilithes abyssicola (Ad. & Rve.), and Voluta ancilla (Sol.)." By 

 M. F. Woodward. 



Mr. S. Pace exhibited ornaments made from the shells of Conns, 

 from British New Guinea. 



Mr. M. F. Woodward exhibited specimens of Turbo stramineus, 

 Martyn, from West Australia, to which colonies of Amalthea Australis, 

 Quoy, were attached ; he drew attention to the character of the 

 protoconch of the latter, and the peculiar relation of the opercular 

 ridges to the grooves round the umbilicus of the former. 



Specimens and drawings in illustration of their papers were placed 

 upon the table by W. B. Bandies, E. B. Sykes, J. Cosmo Melvill, 

 and M. F. Woodward. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 11th May, 1900. 



W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On a new species and subgenus of Despcena, with notes on 

 some allied forms." By E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



2. " On some new species of Marine Mollusca from the Philippines." 

 By G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S., etc. 



3. " On some Lamellibranch Remains occurring in a sandstone 

 from the Malay Peninsula." By R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., etc. 



Mr. G. K. Gude exhibited and made remarks upon a large collection 

 of Plectopylis. 



The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen exhibited a number of molluscs from 

 a raised beach at Portland of late Pleistocene age ; also an apparently 

 new species of Corbicula ; and a specimen of Gryphcea dilatata, Sby., 

 from the Oxford Clay, near Weymouth, showing the impression of the 

 Trigonia to which it had been attached in its youth. 



