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MALACOLOGICAL SECTION 
OF THE 
oval Society of South Australia. 
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 
The section has concluded its work of a critical revision of the 
Marine Gastropods of South Australia, and have dealt with the 
following families :—Marginellidee, Olivide, Conide, Pleuroto- 
mide, Cancellariidee, Cyprveide, and Cassidee. 
The lists of local representations of these families have been 
considerably increased by the addition of many new species 
(obtained chiefly through the dredging operations of Dr. Verco), 
and many forms not hitherto recorded as occurring have been duly 
localised and identified. Of the former, new species to the 
number of sixteen belonging to the Pleurotomide have been 
described by Mr. J. B. Sowerby, from type specimens forwarded 
to him, in a paper in proceedings of the Malacological Society 
(Vol. II., Part I., April, 1896), and of the other, several have 
been dealt with by their discoverer, Dr. Verco, in a paper 
published in this volume of the transactions of the Royal Society 
of South Australia. 
Ten meetings have been held during the year. Dr. R. H. 
Perks was elected Hon. Secretary and Treasurer vice Mr. R. H. 
Pulleine, the latter having left Adelaide for residence in Sydney, 
New South Wales. 
Two new members have been elected during the year, Dr. Torr 
and Mr. Ashby. 
