March 2, 1854. 



Professor GRAHAM, V.P., in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, the Secretary read the following 

 list of Candidates for election into the Society. 



James Allman, M.D. 



Henry Foster Baxter, Esq. 



Edward William Brayley, Esq. 



Alexander Bryson, M.D. 



James Caird, Esq. 



J. Lockhart Clarke, Esq. 



William Coulson, Esq. 



Thomas Russell Crampton, Esq. 



Joseph Dickinson, M.D. 



Solomon Moses Drach, Esq. 



Major Duckett. 



John Eric Erichsen, Esq. 



Sir Charles Fox. 



Ronald Camphell Gunn, Esq. 



William Bird Herapath, M.D. 



Robert Hunt Esq. 



John Bennet Lawes, Esq. 



Edward Joseph Lowe, Esq. 



Robert Mallet, Esq. 



Charles May, Esq. 



Captain Moore, R.N. 



Henry Perigal, Esq. 



Captain Strachey. 



R. D. Thomson, Esq. 



Charles Vincent Walker, Esq. 



Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq. 



Robert Wight, M.D. 



Thomas Williams, M.D. 



W. C. Williamson, Esq. 



George Fergusson Wilson, Esq. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " On the Growth of Land Shells." By E. J. LOWE, Esq., 

 F.G.S., F.R.A.S. &c. Communicated by HENRY LAWSON, 

 Esq., F.R.S. Received February 18, 1854. 



Perhaps the following observations on the growth of land shells 

 may contain sufficient information to prove interesting to the Royal 

 Society. Before describing them, however, a few introductory re- 

 marks will be necessary. Every individual experimented upon has 

 been kept in confinement since the day it was hatched. Each 



