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ANNUAL REPORT, 1899. 



Your Council in presenting their Second Annual Report have to record a year's 

 work of an exceedingly satisfactory character, and note with pleasure the continued 

 steady progress of the Society. 



During 1899 seven new ordinary and two honorary members have been elected. 

 Your Council regret to have lost through continued ill-health an enthusiastic 

 member, Mr. F. W. Carpenter. 



During the year eight meetings have been held, at which five papers have been 

 read. The exhibits have been numerous, and often more than could be dealt with 

 at a single meeting. 



The financial condition of the Society remains satisfactory. 



Additions to the Library include some fifty pamphlets by various authors, pre- 

 sented by Professor H. A. Pilsbry and the President. It is hoped that all members 

 will present copies of their writings to the Society's Library. 



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

 and to Professor T. W. Bridge, for the facilities they have so kindly given in per- 

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



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



PilsbPy, H. A.— Tryon's Manual of Conchology, ser. ii, vol. xii (pt. 48), pp. 

 178 — 258, pi. xlvii — Ixiv. 



After completing his survey of the genus Liguiis, Dr. Pilsbry deals with the genus 

 Orlltalicus, and proposes (p. 192) MetorthalicKs as a new sub-genus for 0. frascri 

 and others. He then passes to the Amphibuliininn:, in which he admits as genera 

 Simpulopsis, Gccotis, FcUclla and Amphibulima. BuUmulopsis is proposed (p. 220) 

 to replace Eudioptus, Albers non Hiibner, as a sub-genus of Simpulopsis. 



The following are described as new species: Simpulopsis tryoni, Brazil (p. 218); 

 Gaotis mallcata, Porto Rico (p. 230); Amphibulima hroicni, Dominica (p. 239). 



This part concludes the study of the American Bulimulidcc, except a few toothed 

 genera (e.g. Odontostomus) which, with the Australian and Oriental Bulimulidct, 

 are to be dealt with in the next volume. — E. R. Sykes. 



Clarke, J. M. — The Naples Fauna (Fauna with Manticoceras intumcscens) in 

 Western New York. i6th Ann. Rpt. N.Y. State Geologist, 1898, pp. 31— 

 165, pis. i — ix. 



The Naples Fauna is the fauna which in the western part of the State of New 

 York is associated with the Cephalopod Goniatiics intumescens, Beyrich, a 

 species usually regarded as characterizing a zone at the lower part of the Upper 

 Devonian. According to the author this fauna presents affinities to the develop- 

 ments of the same zone as found in " Devon, Belgium, the Rhine, the Hartz, and 

 on the west and east slopes of the Urals. In none of these, however, are its 

 individual, specific and generic features so fully reproduced as in the association 

 described by Holzapfel as occurring at Martenberg, near Adorf, in Westphalia." 



This fauna occurs in the tj^pical section of the formation known as the Portage 

 Group, but as it differs considerably from the contemporaneous faunas of adjacent 

 regions the author calls it the ' Naples Fauna,' and not the ' Portage Fauna,' a term 

 which would include the fauna of the Portage sediments wherever found. The 

 fauna, however, makes its first appearance in the Styliola limestone, which is found 

 near the middle of the Genesee slates occurring immediately below the Portage 

 group. 



