PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



In presenting the report for the past year the Council have nothing of 

 an extraordinary nature to bring forward, but are pleased to state that steady 

 progress has been made and really good work has been done. There are 

 now i8o names on the Society's Register of Members. Twenty-one Mem- 

 bers have been elected and five have resfgned during the year. Papers of 

 considerable scientific value and interesthave been read by Mr. G. B. Sowerby, 

 F.L.S., Rev. J. McMurtrie, M.A., Rev. S. Spencer Pearce, M.A., Mr. 

 E. D. Marquand, M.A., Mr. R. F. Scharft; Ph.D., B.Sc, Mr. J. G. Milne, 

 and Mr. J. M. B. Taylor, and several Members have communicated short 

 notes. 



The Council will recommend to this meeting the renewal of the agree- 

 ment entered into with Mr. Taylor a year ago for the publication of the 

 Society's proceedings and papers in the Journal of Conchology. 



It has been thought desirable to elect Honorary Members to the full 

 number allowed by rule, and after full consideration of the question by a 

 sub-committee the Council adopted their report and will submit the names 

 of seven gentlemen, eminent as Conchologists, for your approval. 



The exhibits of specimens at the ordinary meetings have, as for several 

 years past, been very numerous, and useful records have been made. 



Contributions to the Fund for the purchase of Cabinets for the Society's 

 Collections have been received during the year amounting to £2 \os. 6d. 

 The General Funds of the Society are in a satisfactory condition, there being 

 a balance oi£iT, 55. 6d. m hand.— Thomas W. Bell, Treasurer and Secretary. 



REPORT ON THE RECORDS 



MADE DURING THE YEAR EXDIXCJ DECEMBER lOTH, l88( 



During the past twelve months a larger number of records have been 

 made and authenticated by the submission of specimens to the Society's 

 Referees than has been made in any previous year with the exception of 1885 . 

 The actual number is 4,789, and the total for the twelve years during 

 which the record-system has been carried on has now reached 28,669. 



The averages which have been struck as to the number of species (not 

 records) authenticated for the various counties and vice-counties show that 

 while for the 72 counties of England and Wales the average number of 

 species recorded is 56 per county, it is but 21 for the 41 Scotch counties and 

 only 14 for the 36 Irish counties. These averages, especially the Irish 

 one, show that much attention must be paid to the detailed distribution of 

 Land and Fresh-water Mollusca in Scotland and Ireland before we can pride 

 ourselves on knowing thoroughly the range of the various species which 

 inhabit the British Isles. 



