1 82 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGlCAL SOCIETY, 



The counties for which absolutely no records whatever have been made 

 have been reduced during the year frem 12 to 4, the 4 which still remain 

 virgin soil for the conchologist being all Irish, viz. Carlow, Longford, East 

 Galway, and Queen's County. It would be a genuine service to the science 

 if some enterprising conchologist would investigate these particular counties 

 and permit the Society's Referees to see what he might happen to collect, a 

 task which during the past year Mr. J. G. Milne has accomplished in 

 Monaghan, Fermanagh, Cavan, Leitrim, and East Mayo, Mr. G. Barrett- 

 Hamilton in Kilkenny, and Miss Sidney Smith in Louth, all of which 

 counties figured last year on our list of blanks. 



It would be well, too , if further attention were paid to the counties for 

 which as yet the species recorded have not reached 10. These are the Welsh 

 county of Radnor, the 11 Scottish counties of Dumfries, Wigton, Stirling, 

 Aberdeen North, lianfif, Elgin, Westerness, Ebudes South, Ebudes North, 

 Orkney, and Shetland, and the 15 Irish counties of Armagh, Monaghan, 

 Donegal, Fermanagh, Cavan, I,outh, Kildare, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Ros- 

 common, Leitrim, Mayo East, Clare, Tipperary North, and Cork North — 

 27 counties in all. 



To further emphasize the need for fuller attention being paid to Scotland 

 and Ireland, we may add that only 2,187 Scottish and 1,158 Irish records 

 have been made, as against 24,210 for England and Wales, and, looking at 

 the fact that resident naturalists, conchologists especially, are not to be 

 found in most of the unworked areas, it is to be hoped that all who wish to 

 co-operate in completing the conchological census should find opportunity 

 to visit such of these neglected areas as may be convenient, even as many of 

 our friends have done in the past.^W, Denison Roebuck, Recorder. 



REPORT OFTHE MANCHESTER BRANCH. 



The Manchester Conchological Society was formed in February, 1888, 

 having as its objects chiefly the careful investigation of the Land and Fresh- 

 water MoUusca of the Manchester District, by means of summer excursions, 

 and meetings during the winter for the exhibition and discussion of specimens 

 and papers, relating thereto ; and also the exhibition and discussion of other 

 conchological subjects generally. 



In August of the same year the Society was acknowledged as an 

 auxiliary, or Branch, by the Council of the Conchological Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. 



The Society at present numbers 18 members, Mr. R. D. Darbishire 

 being President ; Mr. Thos. Rogers, Referee and Authenticator ; Mr. Ed. 

 Collier, Treasurer ; and Mr. R. Standen, Honorary Secretary. 



It has so far fully answered the objects of its originators in affording 

 pleasant opportunity for the exchange of information and specimens, and 

 for several interesting local investigations attended with very satisfactory 

 results. 



J.C., vi., Jan., 1890. 



