JcXx. THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



of British water beetles, and asked for any information available 

 about those in Dorset. The President was asked to deal with 

 the communication. 



Donation to the County Museum. — The Hon. Treasurer 

 observed that the Club had long been indebted to the Dorset 

 County Museum for the use of the reading-room for their indoor 

 meetings, and he proposed, with the approval of the meeting, to 

 ask the Council of the Museum to accept a donation of £i 3s. 

 in recognition of their hospitality towards the Club. He looked 

 forward to the time when the Club might have a home of its 

 own ; but until that day came he trusted that they might continue 

 to avail themselves of the hospitable roof of the Museum. The 

 President seconded the proposition, which was carried unani- 

 mously. Captain Acland, on behalf of the Council of the 

 Museum, returned his grateful thanks to the Club. The funds 

 of the Museum were not in so flourishing a state as those of the 

 Field Club, and therefore he knew that the Council would gladly 

 accept the kind contribution. He hoped that the close friendship 

 which had in the past subsisted between the Club and the 

 Museum, to the mutual advantage of each, would long continue. 

 The Museum reaped much benefit from the Field Club meeting 

 there, because, in addition to the many members from all parts 

 of the county who attended the meetings, and thus became 

 interested in the INIuseum, various gifts, books, and other 

 publications were made to the Museum and Library by the Club. 



Exhibits, &c. 



Exhibits by the President. — The President exhibited a 

 Scalariform variety of the common snail {Helix aspejsd) found at 

 Dorchester, on which he read the following note : — 



The term " scalariform," if strictly used, would imply that all the whorls of a 

 shell were separate from each other (like the beautiful and formerly very rare 

 Scalaria pretiosa, which I exhibit, from which the term is derived), but it is often 

 loosely used to include individuals which nearly approach that condition, as in 

 the present case. 



