xxvi. HE FIRST WINTER AIEETING. 



Complaints were made as to the slight recognition by the British Association of 

 the position and work of the affiliated Societies, and suggestions were made as 

 to a closer union. This matter also was referred to the new committee ; but the 

 officers of the British Association at once caused the names of the delegates to 

 appear in the next daily journal in the same way as the committees of the various 

 sections. 



It seemed to be generally felt that the delegates have no time to form a 

 coherent body. It was thought that the appointment of the new standing 

 committee would briug the local Societies more into touch with each other and 

 with the British Association, and would give them more influence, especially in 

 view of the two years' interval which practically must result from the next 

 meeting of the British Association taking place in South Africa. 



On the motion of Mr. A. POPE, it was agreed that in future the 

 year of election shall precede each name in the list of Members 

 in the Club's " Proceedings." 



EXHIBITS. 

 BY DR. F. D. LYS : 



Specimens of Testacclla mnwjei (shelled slug) from his garden. 



The genus Testacclla (shell-bearing slugs). About six or seven species are 

 known from France, Italy, Algeria, the Canary Islands, Madeira, the Azores, 

 England, &c. In this country two are found, viz. : T. maiigei and T. haliottdea, 

 which are both either somewhat uncommon, or much overlooked through their 

 general resemblance to the common slugs, which have no external shell. 

 Authors seem to agree in thinking that they are probably imported by human 

 agency, but the number of places in which they occur and the manner in which 

 they flourish in our climate at least suggests a doubt if they are not true natives. 

 In Dorset, for instance, they have occurred at Corfe Castle (tnaityei, " Proc.," 

 V., 136), Blandford (haliotidca , Proc., V., 136), Weymouth (niaugei), Chickerell 

 (lialiotidca}, Stalbridge (haliotidca, Science Gossip, 1870, p. 309), and Charminster, 

 and no doubt this list might be much increased if gardeners were instructed to 

 notice any slugs with shells on their backs that they meet with. Fischer (in 

 Manuel de Conchyliologie, p. 450), says that in default of worms, the usual food, 

 these slugs will attack others of their own genus as well as other slugs and snails. 



Very few eggs are laid, from 6 to 15, according to the same authority, and 

 these are placed somewhat deep in the earth. They are large, with a calcareous 

 shell, nearly round in mauyei and pointed at each end in haliotidea. 



Fossil species are known from the Upper Miocene. 



Haliotidca is dull white on the ventral surface, mangel being more or less 

 salmon-pink. The latter is figured in " Proc.," V., 136, but the colouring of the 

 underside is often much fainter than there represented. 



Figures of T. tnaiigci, "Proc.," V., 136. Tongue of T. haliotidca, Fischer, 

 Man. de Conch., 449. 



