﻿PUOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  3 
  

  

  8. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  Po/y/;/«coji;Aor«, 
  chiefly 
  Australasian." 
  Parti. 
  By- 
  

   Tom 
  Iredale. 
  (Publication 
  deferred.) 
  

  

  9. 
  "jSTotes 
  on 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  Helicoid 
  Land 
  Shells 
  froniNewGuiaea." 
  

   Py 
  G. 
  K. 
  Gude, 
  P.Z.S. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  G. 
  P. 
  Sowerby 
  exhibited 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  Hinnites 
  gigantea 
  in 
  various 
  

   stages 
  of 
  development, 
  the 
  young 
  stages 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  being 
  

   remarkably 
  like 
  Feden, 
  while 
  the 
  older 
  and 
  adult 
  specimens 
  distinctly 
  

   showed 
  the 
  demarcation 
  between 
  the 
  young 
  free 
  stage 
  and 
  the 
  later 
  

   fixed 
  stage. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  H. 
  P. 
  Preston 
  exhibited 
  the 
  tj'pe 
  of 
  Helicella 
  cantianiformis 
  

   (Bourg.), 
  Ancey, 
  from 
  Polkestoue, 
  which 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  simply 
  an 
  

   abnormal 
  specimen 
  of 
  H. 
  cantiana, 
  Mont. 
  

  

  The 
  Kev. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Cooke 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  Helix 
  desertoriitt/., 
  

   Forskal, 
  collected 
  by 
  him 
  six 
  years 
  previously, 
  and 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  

   in 
  a 
  tin 
  box 
  without 
  food 
  for 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  that 
  period, 
  until 
  the 
  

   previous 
  day, 
  when 
  sixteen 
  of 
  these 
  in 
  various 
  stages 
  of 
  growth 
  were 
  

   found 
  to 
  be 
  alive, 
  thereby 
  beating 
  the 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  famous 
  specimen 
  

   in 
  the 
  Pritish 
  Museum,^ 
  

  

  [' 
  Specimens 
  given 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Cooke 
  on 
  his 
  return 
  from 
  Egypt 
  were 
  placed 
  in 
  

   a 
  glass-topped 
  box 
  in 
  February, 
  1904, 
  and 
  labelled 
  "To 
  be 
  opened 
  in 
  1908, 
  or 
  

   later". 
  Five 
  of 
  these 
  specimens 
  were 
  placed 
  in 
  a 
  glass 
  jar 
  upon 
  moistened 
  

   blotting-paper 
  on 
  17th 
  January, 
  1910, 
  and 
  one 
  was 
  found 
  crawling 
  about 
  the 
  

   following 
  morning. 
  I 
  would 
  here 
  call 
  attention 
  to 
  a 
  circumstantial 
  account 
  

   of 
  the 
  revival 
  of 
  some 
  snails 
  after 
  fifteen 
  years' 
  torpidity, 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Phil. 
  

   Trans., 
  1774, 
  vol. 
  Ixiv, 
  pt. 
  ii, 
  p. 
  432. 
  — 
  E. 
  A. 
  Smith.'] 
  

  

  