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PROCEEDINGS of the CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NOTE.— Communications to be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, 

 at the Museum, Park Row, Leeds. 



Meeting 



HELD OCTOBER 2NU, 1889, AT THE MUSEUM, LEEDS. 



Mr. John W. Taylor, F.L. S., vice-president, in the chair. 



Donations for the Libiar)- announced from the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales, the Naturalist, the Royal Society of Queensland, the Govern- 

 ment of Victoria; and for the collection, from the Rev. Cnrleton Greene 

 (shells from Great Rarford, Beds.), Mr. J. G. Milne (shells from Ireland), 

 and Mr. W. Baillie (shells from Brora). 



NEW MEMBEt^S. 



Mr. John M. Williams, Liverpool, was duly elected a member. 



The following candidates were nominated for membership : — Mr. Arthur 

 Mayfield, Norwich (proposed by J. W. Taylor and W. Denison Roebuck) ; 

 Mr. R. Miller Christy, F.L.S., Chignal St. James (by T. W. Bell and J. W. 

 Taylor) ; and Mr. G. A. F. Knight (by E. A. Smith and A. Somerville). 



PAPERS READ. 



George Roberts — 'Notes on Helices.' 



J. Grafton Milne — 'Contributions towards a List of Irish Mollusca. ' 



EXHiBrrs. 



Mr. Milne sent a large number of shells collected in Ireland, in authen- 

 tication of his list, and kindly presented them to the Society's collection. 



On behalf of the Rev. S. Spencer Pearce, M.A. , the chairman showed 

 a fine series of examples of LinniLea peregra from numerous localities in the 

 Engadine, from Eastbourne, etc, including var. elongatissiina Gredl., and 

 numerous other interesting forms. 



Mr. William Nelson communicated a note on an excursion made by 

 himself recently near Spofforth, Yorks., and exhibited the shells collected. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.Iy.S., showed a large collection of shells 

 made in Lincolnshire during September, including a series of Clazisilia 

 rolphii. Helix lapicida in confirmation of Martin Lister's record, Veiiigo 

 edentiila, Pupa iiiarginata, &c. He also showed Biilivnis aciitus and var. 

 strigata, and several Helices from Tintagel, East Cornwall, sent by Mr. C. 

 Ashford, the B. acutus and H. coperata being new records for the vice 

 county. He also showed Pupa ringens and other shells collected in county 

 Kilkenny by Mr. G. Barrett-Hamilton ; Zonites i-adiatulits, Z. rJddus, and 

 other shells collected in Easterness by Mr. W. Evans, P\R.S.E., and a few 

 Cumberland shells. 



Meeting 



HELD NOVEMBER 6tH, 1 889. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.L.S., vice-president, in the chair. 

 Donations for Library announced : The Naturalist and Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes, 



