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It was resolved that : 



" Whereas, the Secretary, Recorder and Treasurer of this 

 Section have onerous duties to perform, for which thej receive 

 no compensation : therefore be it 



" Resolved, that the Publication Committee be authorized to 

 supply to those officers the American Journal of Conchology 

 for this and succeeding years at the cost of the Section." 



Dr. Ferd. Stoliczka, of Calcutta, was elected a Correspondent. 



Meeting Nov. bth, 1868. 



Six members present. 



Mr. Tryon, Vice-Director, in the Chair. 



Donations to the Museum and Library were read. 



The following papers were read and referred to Committees : 



" On a New Californian Terrestrial Mollusk." By J. G. 

 Cooper, M. D. 



" On the Distribution and Localities of West Coast Helicoid 

 Land Shells. By J. G. Cooper, M. D. 



" Palfeontologia Indica ; Gasteropodse of the Cretaceous 

 Rocks of Southern India : by Ferd. Stoliczka. Review. By 

 Wm. M. Gabb. 



" Remarks on some of the Mollusca of the Valley of the Mo- 

 hawk." By James Lewis, M. D. 



" Catalogue of the Family Pandoridse." By P. P. Carpenter. 



" Notes on Recent and Fossil Shells, with Descriptions of new 

 Genera." By T. A. Conrad.- 



"Descriptions of two new Species of Cyprsea." By S. R. 

 Roberts. 



Rev. Dr. Beadle announced the death of Rev. E. Johnson of 

 Waioli, Sandwich Islands, late a Correspondent of this Section. 



