JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 85 



PROCEEDINGS of the CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting 



HELD ON THE lOTH OF OCTOBER, 1 888. 



Mr. W. E. Collinge in the chair. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were laid on the table : — • 



" Description of Sixteen New Species of Shells" (Re-print) by Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; presented by the Author. 



"Notes on the Pleistocene Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the Barn- 

 well Gravels (Reprint) by Mr. B. B. Woodward, F.G. S. ; presented by the 

 Author. The thanks of the Meeting were accorded the Donors for their gifts. 



NEW MEMBER. 



Mr. John J. Halstead, Carlisle, was nominated for membership by Mr. 

 A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.'^. and Mr. Thos. W. Bell. 



PAPER READ. 



"Dorsetshire Marine Shells," by the Rev. Carleton Greene, M.A. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L. S. showed a number of shells on behalf 

 of Mrs. Knox, Ballina, County ^\7iyo •.—Neritina fluviatilis, SpJuvriwn 

 corneuin, Plaiiorbis aid us, Valvata piscinalis, and Pisidiuiii nitiduni from 

 County Mayo ; and Helix rupestris, Clausilia rngosa, Valvata cristata, 

 Succinea elegans, and Physa hypnoruin from County Sligo. 



Meeting 



HELD NOVEMBER /TH, 188S. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor, F. L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 



DONATIONS. 



"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland," vol. v, part i, 

 1 888 ; presented by the Society. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



Mr. J. J. Halstead, Carlisle, was elected a Member of the 'Society. 



The undernamed were nominated for Membership : — Mr. Joseph Grafton 

 Milne, Bowdon, Cheshire, by Mr. C. Oldham and Mr. E. CoUier ; Mr. 

 Loftus St. George Byne, Teignmouth, by Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, and 

 Mr. J. T. Marshall; Mr. Clifford Burkill, Scarboro', by Mr. A. Somerville, 

 B.Sc and Mr. J. T. Marshall; Mr. Chas. A. S. Bell Cox, B.A., M.R.C.S., 

 Canterbury, by Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, and Mr. J. T. Marshall; Mr. 

 j. Radcliffe, Ashton-under-Lyne, by Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, and Mr. 

 W. Denison Roebuck, F. L. S. ; Mr. Riley Fortune, Plarrogate, by Mr. 

 F. R. Fitzgerald and Mr. T. W. Bell. 



