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In order to illustrate papers read before the Societ)', a " Publication Fund" has 

 been opened, and a number of contributions promised ; further donations are earnestly 

 desired. 



The nucleus of a Library has been received and it is hoped to add to this in the 

 coming year. 



Your thanks are due to the President and Council of Mason University College 

 and Prof. T. W. Bridge, for the facilities they have so kindly given in permitting 

 our meetings to be held in the Zoological Department of the College. 



7TH MEETING, February ioth, 1899. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The following nominations for membership were read : — 

 Messrs. F. W. Carpenter, and William Moss, F.C.A. 



Paper Read. 



"Note on some Slugs from Teneriffe," by Walter E. Collinge, F.Z.S., and 

 F. J. Partridge. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. Guy Breeden : Shells of the British species of HyaU7iia. 



By Mr. F. J. Partridge : Two sinistrose monstrosities of Bucciniwi undatiim, 

 also a specimen showing strong carination of the whorls, and a collection of Claicsilia 

 comprising all the British species and many varieties. 



By the President : Specimens of Omulonyx fclina, Guppy, in alcohol. The 

 radula of various species of Limax, Arion, Amalia, Tcstacella, Vitrina, Hyalinia, 

 Zonitcs, Helix, Clausilia, Lhmuea, Vivipara, Physa, AmpuUaria, Cliiton, Conus, 

 Purpura, etc. A series of preparations of the integument of various Pulmonates. 



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PilsbPy, H. A. — Tr>-on's Manual of Conchology, ser. i, vol. xvii, (pts. 65A, 68), 

 pp. xxxii + 225-348, pis. xxxviii-xlviii : ser. ii, vol. xi, (pt. 44), pp. 209-339, 

 pis. xlii-li. Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences. 



In the Marine, or first, series of this work Mr. Pilsbry, with the assistance of 

 Dr. Sharp, issues the concluding portion of the bibliographical catalogue of fossil 

 Scaphopoda, and he also gives an outline account of the Aplacophora, following 

 mainly the system of Simroth in Bronn's " Khissen und Ordnungen des Thierrcichs.^' 

 We may note Tesseracme, a new section of Dcntalium for the group of D. apicale ; 

 D. hednalU, n. sp. , from S. Australia; and revisions of nomenclature on pp. 253, 255. 

 The bibliographical list will also prove of great service. 



In that little known group, the Aplacophora, Mr. Pilsbry proposes Simrothiella — 

 a well-deserved compliment — as a subgenus of Proneomenia, and he also suggests 

 Idhyomcnia as a new name for Ismcnia, Pruvot non King. 



In chronicling the completion of this series, we welcome the announcement that 

 it is proposed to undertake a monograph of the "Marine Bivalves," and trust it 

 will prove as successful as the recent volumes of the first series have been. 



In the second series Mr. Pilsbry continues that exceedingly difficult genus 

 Drymceus, and completes his review of the South American species. We may 

 chronicle as new species D. subsimilaris, loc. incert. , D. blandi, Columbia, and 

 D. fresnocnsis, Columbia; also interesting rectifications of nomenclature on pp. 219, 

 291, 297, and 301. — E. R. S. 



