PROCEEDINGS OP THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 237 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 9th February, 1923. 



A. S. Kennaed, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death of Col. Wilmer. 



Mr. Arthur G. Wrigley and Mr. J. Marwick were elected to 

 membership of the Society. 



The President then delivered his Address on " The Holocene 

 non-marine Mollusca of England". 



On the motion of Mr. R. Bullen Newton, seconded by Mr. Tomlin, 

 a vote of thanks to the President for his address was passed, with 

 the request that he would allow the same to be printed in extenso 

 in the Proceedings of the Society. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Friday, 9th March, 1923. 

 Lieut. -Col. A. J. Peile, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. James Zetec was elected to membership of the Society. 

 Mr. Bullen Newton read an obituary notice of the late Col. Wilmer. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on Littorina rudis, Maton, var. alticola, Dacie." By 

 J. C. Dacie. 



2. " Note on the Genus Stenochiton (order Polyplacophora) and 

 the discovery and recognition of the type of Blainville's Chiton 

 longicymba in Stenochiton juloides, Ad. and Ang." By Edwin 

 Ashby, F.L.S. 



The following exhibits were made : — 



By Mr. Tomlin : Foreign specimens of Euparypha pisana ; and 

 Arion suhfuscus, a new record for east Sussex. 



By Mr. Salisbury : A curious miniature set of specimens 

 illustrating the Linnean Genera. 



By Col. Peile : A curious form of Helix aspersa. 



By Mr. Dacie : Examples of Littorina illustrating his paper. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Friday, 13th April, 1923. 



The following resolution was proposed and duly passed : — 



That Rule XI be altered to read as follows : — 



" That the management of the Society be vested in a President, 

 six Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Secretary, an Editor, and nine 

 other members, who shall constitute a Council to be elected annually 

 at the Annual General Meeting by Ballot, and that the two senior 

 Vice-Presidents and three other members of the Council shall retire 

 annually and shall not be eligible for re-election to their respective 

 offices until the next Annual General Meeting." 



