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attention merely needs to be directed upon a few neglected areas here and 

 there, a veiy large amount of work still remains to be done in Scotland and 

 Ireland, and that it is very desirable that vastly increased numbers of foreign 

 specimens of the British species ought to be submitted to the Referees. It 

 is therefore hoped that members will hasten the completion of the work of 

 registration by submitting Scottish, Irish and Foreign shells in large 

 numbers during the next and future years. It is at all times to be thoroughly 

 understood that no record or species whatever can be entered in the Record- 

 Book, unless the specimens have actually been examined by the Referees 

 and no book-records hovever trustworthy, can be taken cognizance of, 

 from the very essence of the Record-system. 



The averages which have been struck as to the number oi species recorded 

 for the various counties show that while for England and Welsh counties 

 the average is as high as 52 species recorded per county, for Scotland it is 

 only 16 and for Ireland only 93- per county, the latter average being eminently 

 unsatisfactory, as showing the large amount of work still remaining to be 

 done in respect of the moUuscan fauna of Ireland. 



The virgin counties, those from which not a single record has yet been 

 made, have been reduced from 1 7 to 1 2 in number. The solitary South British 

 county hitherto uninvestigated — Cardigan — has now been worked by Mr. E. 

 Collier and W. Whitwell, while specimens from Elgin and East Ross have 

 been sent by Messrs Alex, and J. E. Somerville, and from Meath by Messrs 

 R. Scharff and W. F. de V. Kane, and a record has been submitted from 

 North Tipperary. There still remain for special attention from conchologists 

 who are desirous of assisting to promote the success of the Record-system, 

 the counties of Wigton in Scotland, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Cavan, Louth, 

 Carlow, Kilkenny, Queen's Co., Longford, Leitrim, East Mayo, and East 

 Galway. 



In addition to these from which no records whatever have been sub- 

 mitted, attention may be directed to the counties of Radnor, Cheviotland, 

 Dumfries, Linlithgow, Stirling, South Perth, North Aberdeen, Banff, Elgin, 

 Easterness, Westerness, South Ebudes, North Ebudes, East Ross, Hebrides, 

 Orkneys, Shetlands, Armagh, Donegal, Meath, Kildare, Wicklow, Wexford, 

 King's Co., Roscommon, Clare, North Tipperary, North Cork, and South 

 Cork (29 in number) from none of which has the number of species as 

 placed on record reached ten, 



W. DENISON ROEBUCK, 

 December 15th, 1888. Recorder. 



CABINET FUND ACCOUNT. 



RECEIPTS— 



£ s 



Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.L.S. 25 



Mr. R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S. 11 



Mr. Jas. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. - - - - 11 



Rev. H. Milnes, M.A. 11 



Lieut. Col. G. S. Parry - - - - i o 



