48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. H. W. J. Biggs exhibited some very fine examples of Limncea 

 pereger, var. ovata, Drap., taken from the New Eiver. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Friday, 11th June, 1920. 

 G. K. GuDE, F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. G. W. Young was elected to membership of the Society. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on the Dates of Publication of Brown's Illustrations 

 of British Conchology, 2nd edition." By A. Reynell. 



2. " A few varieties of Port Alfred Shells." By G. B. Sowerby, 

 F.L.S. 



3. " Description of a new species of Mitra from South Africa." 

 By the Rev. Dr. A. H. Cooke, M.A., F.Z.S. 



4. " Note on Marginella guttula, Sow." By John Shirley, D.Sc. 



5. " Preliminary Notice of Roy Bell's MoUuscan Collections." 

 By T. Iredale. 



Mr. Roy Bell has been collecting at Sunday Island, Kermadec 

 Group, since I left, and the major portion of this collection was 

 reported upon by Mr. W. R. Oliver. Subsequently he made 

 large collections at Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island, 

 securing almost hundreds of novelties, which I hope fully to 

 account for later. He served in the War, and having his 

 demobilization venue fixed at Melbourne offered to collect 

 Chitons for me if required near that locality. I indicated two 

 desirable points. Port Fairy, in Western Victoria, and 

 Mallacoota, the eastern limit of Victoria. If additional time 

 were available Twofold Bay in New South Wales was sug- 

 gested as the southernmost point in that colony. He visited 

 Port Fairy first, and securing a representative collection of 

 Chitons, also made valuable collections of marine molluscs 

 generally. He thus added to the known Chiton fauna of 

 Victoria three species, and enlarged the range of some 

 Adelaidean shells into Victoria. At Mallacoota he determined 

 the limits of the Peronian Region, adding a couple more 

 Chiton records to Victoria and definitely establishing the range 

 of others. The influenza epidemic practically prevented his 

 leaving Australia for New Zealand, his home, so he settled at 

 Twofold Bay and made a very extensive collection of marine 

 mollusca in that locality, dredging in shallow water in every 

 part of the Bay. I am now engaged in working out this 

 collection, which is the most valuable yet examined by any 

 extra-limital worker. Many valuable results have been 

 achieved, and the greatest thanks are due to the energy of 

 Mr. Roy Bell, whose field work is complete and unsurpassable 

 in every way. 



