l6o PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



" Note on a New Ampiillaria, from the La Plata," by J. W. Williams 

 (Re-print) ; presented by the Author. 



Eighteenth Annual Report of the Chester Society of Natural Science 

 and Literature, 1888-9; presented by the Society. 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes," Nos. 217 to 226. 



" Bulletin de la Societe d'etudes Scientifiques de Paris," 1878-1887. 



" Catalogue de la Bibliotheque," Nos. 4 and 5, 1888-9. 



NEW MEMBER. 



Mr. A. E. Baker, of Leicester, was nominated for Membership. 



PAPERS READ. 



Note on Assiminea Littorina, by E. R. Sykes. 



Clausillia ritgosa and Balea perversa in Haddingtonshire, by W. Evans. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. W. D. Roebuck showed Helix fiisca from near Wind Bridge, 

 Teesdale, and several specimens from Leadburn, Peebles-shire. 

 The Chairman showed Zoiiites cellarius from Lancashire. 



Meeting 



HELD SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1889. 



Mr. J- W. Taylor, F.L. S., presided. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were laid on the table : — 

 Report of the Smithsonian Institute, 1886, part i. 



"Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland," 1889, Vol. vi., 

 part 4. 



"The Naturalist," for September, 1889. 

 " Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes," No. 227. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



Mr. A. E. Baker was duly elected a Member of this Society. 



Mr. John M. Williams, of Liverpool, was nominated for Membership. 



PAPERS READ. 



Further Notes on Marine Shells of South Africa, with descriptions of 

 new species, by G. B. Sowerby, F.Z.S. 



" An Excursion to County Donegal," by R. F. Scharff, B.Sc, Ph.D. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Dr. Scharff sent a collection of shells from Bundoran, Co. Donegal, and 

 TuUaghan, Co. Leitrim, in illustration of liis paper, and presented them to 

 the Society's Collection. 



The Chairman showed collections of shells sent by Mr. G. W. Mellor, 

 who had collected them at Roundstone, Galway, and Westport, Mayo, in 

 August of the present year; and by Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A., from 

 Rowsley. 



Mr. W. E. Collinge also showed a number of shells collected in 

 Ireland by Mr. E. R. Waite, of Leeds, ■ 



J.C., vi., Oct., t8 



