240 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. William Nelson exhiliited a large number of specimens of Linma-a 

 glabra from numerous localities, and made some most interesting remarks on 

 the species, based upon his very extensive experience of it. 



The Secretary showed a collection of shells from Roxburghshire, a county 

 for which very few records had hitherto come under the notice of the Society's 

 referees. These shells were sent by Mr. W. Grant Guthrie, of Hawick, 

 and included Helix lapicida from Hawick, its most northern locality, but 

 now extinct there from the extension of the town. 



The Secretary also showed a number of land and fresh water shells sent 

 from Cumberland and Westmorland localities by the Rev. Hilderic Friend, 

 F. L.S., amongst which were several shells not hitherto authenticated for 

 Cumberland, BiiUmus acutus being one. Specimens from Kendal, West- 

 morland, of Helix ei'icetonini var. minor and of H. virgata vars. albescens and 

 leucozona were also included. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F. L.S., exhibited miscellaneous shells, \w- 

 cindiTigHelix pygiiuFa from the Pass of Leng, near Callander, West Perthshire, 

 sent by Mr. W. Evans, F. R.S.E. , Helix virgata var. albescens and Buliiuns 

 actttits in various forms sent from the side of the river Boyne, near Drogheda, 

 CO. Louth, by Miss Sidney Smith, and Bttliiniis obsciirns from Well Vale, 

 North Lincolnshire, and other shells sent by Mr. J. Eardley Mason. 



175th Meeting, February 5th, 1890. 



Mr. Jno. W. Taylor, F. L. vS., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Candidates for Membership Proposed : Mr. C. Owen Pickard- 

 Cambridge, of Bloxworth, Dorset ; Mr. G. K. Gude, of London ; and Mr. 

 Arthur Stubbs, of Nottingham. 



Donations announced and thanks voted : Research, Naturalist, Feuille 

 des Jeunes Naturalistes, Proceedings of Linnean Society of New South Wales, 

 W. H. Ball's Preliminary Catalogue of the Shell-bearing Marine Mollusks 

 and Brachiopods of the S.E. coast of United States., R. Tate on some New 

 or Little-known Genera of Australian Mollusca, and R. Tate's Descriptions 

 of some New Species of Marine Mollusca from vSouth Australia and Victoria. 



Exhibits. 



Mr. William Nelson showed a large series of specimens of Liiiuuva 

 peregra from numerous localities. Mr. Nelson made some most interesting 

 remarks on the species, its variation, habits, life history, etc. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor, F. L.S., exhibited a series of specimens oi Limnaa 

 peregra to illustrate the range of its variation in size, colour, form, etc. 



The Secretary, on behalf of Mr. Fred. Rhodes, showed a most interesting 

 sectional preparation of Claiisilia ritgosa, showing the internal structure of 

 the shell. 



Mr. W^. Denison Roebuck, F. L. S., exhibited Liniax arbonim, a very 

 black example of Anialia luarginata, Arion siibfiiscus, etc., all sent from 

 Piperstown, co. Louth, by Miss Sidney Smith ; and numerous shells from 

 Notts., Cumberland, Lincolnshire, South-West Yorkshire, Lanarkshire, Dum- 

 bartonshire, and Edinburghshire, all sent by Rev. Hilderic Friend, F. L.S. 



J.C., vi., July, i8go. 



