PROCEEDINGS OF THE MIDLAND MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 23 



Hon. Secretary — H. Overton. 



Librarian and Curator — Guy Breeden. 



Other members of the Council — Messrs. Breeden, H. Willoughby Ellis, F. J. 

 Partridge, and Bromley Peebles. 



The President's Address was postponed until the February meeting. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. Overton : A very fine collection of shells of Helix hortoisis, also If. 

 ohvoluta from Ditcham, Hampshire. 



By Mr. Breeden : Shells of H. Iiortcnsis from various localities. 



By Mr. Partridge : Varieties of H. liortensis. 



By the President : Specimens of Vcronicclla gilsoni, Cllge. , from the Fiji Islands. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1900. 



In presenting their Third Annual Report your Council have to record another 

 year's work of an extremely satisfactory character. 



During 1900 only one new member has been elected, and death has removed 

 from our Society the veteran student of the MoUusca — Mr. G. Sherriff Tye. 



Eight meetings have been held, at which five papers have been read. The 

 exhibits have been plentiful, and often of great interest. 



The financial condition of the Society stands as follows : there is a balance due 

 to the Treasurer of ^2. os. 3d., and the outstanding subscriptions amount to £2. 



Numerous additions to the Library have been made, the number of works and 

 pamphlets now numbering 85. A commencement has been made with the Collection 

 of British Molluscs, and donations have been received from the President, and 

 Messrs. Bloomer and Overton. 



Your thanks are due to the Council of the University of Birmingham, and Prof. 

 Bridge, for the facilities they have so kindly given in permitting our meetings to be 

 held in the Zoological Department. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



PilsbPy, Henpy A.- — Tryon's Manual of Conchology, ser. ii, vol. xiii (pt. 52), 

 pp. 177 — 253, pis. 49 — 72. Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Dr. Pilsbry continues and completes his account of the genus Amjjhidromus, 

 Alb. 



An Appendix to the volume contains the following important corrections, etc. 

 Bothriembryon physodcs (Menke), 1848, replaces Reeve's name physoidea. I'laco- 

 stylus shongii (Less.). According to Mr. Suter this name is incorrect, and should 

 stand hongii. P. fihratus (Martyn). Mr. Charles Hedley points out that the locality 

 of the original is lie Amere or Botany Island. 



Simpson, C. T. — Synopsis of the Naiades, or pearly freshwater mussels. Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., 1900, vol. xxii, pp. 501 — 1044, pi. xviii. 



The appearance of Mr. Simpson's valuable synopsis marks a distinct advance in 

 the history of the study of this large and difficult group of Pelecypoda. Coming, 

 as it does, from so distinguished an authority, who has had unrivalled facilities for 

 dealing with this interesting group, it claims more than passing attention. 



