184 PROCEEDINGS OF THE HALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 9th November, 1900. 



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



Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G., C.B., was elected to membership of 



the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Morphological and Descriptive Notes on the genus Gryptoplax.' 1 '' 

 By H. A. Pilsbry. 



2. " Note on a remarkable Nudibranch from N.W. America." By 

 Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G., C.B., etc. 



3. " On the Anatomy of some Agnathous Molluscs from New 

 Zealand." By R. Murdoch. 



4. "On the fate of the Type-specimen of Voluta Roadnightce.' 1 '' By 

 Prof. W. Baldwin-Spencer, F.R.S. etc. 



My attention has been drawn to a remarkable statement made by 

 Mrs. A. Kenyon in a " Note on Voluta Roadnightce, McCoy " (Proc. 

 Malac. Soc. Lond., vol. iii, p. 267). 



Mrs. Kenyon says : — " In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Victoria for May, 1898, it is stated that the type-specimen of Voluta 

 Roadnightce is preserved in the National Museum, Melbourne. Since 

 this, though doubtless printed in good faith, is an inaccurate statement, 

 I thought it might be of interest to recall exactly how many specimens 

 have been found, where they were obtained, and where they are now pre- 

 served." The type-specimen came, as described by the late Sir F. McCoy, 

 from the Ninety Mile Beach on the Victoria coast, and was collected by 

 Mrs. Roadknight, of the Lake's Entrance, Gippsland, after whom it was 

 named specifically. Mrs. Kenyon goes on to say : — " This specimen was, 

 I believe, sent to Germany." 



In face of the fact that, in answer to her enquiry, Mrs. Kenyon was 

 definitely informed that the type-specimen, though not in the public 

 exhibition, was still preserved in the National Museum, it is somewhat 

 difficult to understand, in the absence of evidence of any kind, what is the 

 meaning of the last sentence. 



On one occasion this specimen was sent to London, when it was 

 examined and subsequently returned to Mr. Edgar Smith ; l since which 

 time it has remained in the National Museum. 



A coloured drawing made at the time by Mr. E. A. Smith was reproduced by 

 Mr. G. B. Sowerby in the second supplement to a " Monograph of the genus 

 Voluta'''' (Thesaurus Conch., vol. v, pi. Dlxxiii, fig. 143). 



