PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 241 



176th Meeting, March 5th, 1890. 



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



New Members Elected : Mr. C. Owen Pickard-Cambridge, of 

 Bloxworth ; Mr. G. K. Gude, of London ; and Mr. Arthur Stul:>bs, of 

 Nottingham. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : Mr. Leonard Oakley 

 Grocock, of Charlton, Kent (proposed liy Messrs. A. J. Jenkins and J. W. 

 Taylor); and Mr. John Nicholson, of Pudsey, Vorks. (proposed by Messrs. 

 W. Nelson and W. E. CoUinge). 



Letfer Read : From Prof. Dr. Rudolph Bergh, Copenhagen, thanking 

 the Society for his election as an Honorary Memljer. 



The Death of Mr. T. W. Pocock was announced. 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : Proceedings of 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, Naturalist, Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes, and copy of Taylor and Roebuck's Authenticated Materials 

 towards a Land and Freshwater Molluscan Fauna of Ireland. 



Papers Read. 



Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A. : A few Notes on Derbyshire from a Con- 

 chologist's point of view. 



Mr. Thomas F. Burrows : Re-discovery of Helix fitsca and Helix 

 liDiiellata in Staffordshire. 



Mr. Henry Byne : A Note that he had found in a portion of the Rev. R. 

 W. J. Smart's Menavawr dredgings (Scilly Islands) of Oct. loth, 1882, a 

 specimen of Rissoa striatitla Mont. var. varicosa Marshall. It was imi^erfect 

 and showed a single varix on the body-whorl in addition to that of the mouth 

 on which it rests, constituting the varietal distinction. Mr. Byne's first 

 acquaintance with this variety was an example with some type shells from 

 Falmouth drift, presented to him by Mr. Clifford Burkill, M.C.S., in May 

 1887, On the 9th June, 1887, Mr. J. T. Marshall gave him another from 

 Guernsey, and he is indel:)ted to him for unpul)lished particulars of the variety 

 in a letter dated 19th July following. Mr. Byne has met with many examples 

 with two varices, and a second Cornish shell with three varices close together 

 on the centre of the body-whorl, ii was remarked in course of discussion 

 that J effreys (B. C. , iii, 6) had mentioned the varix of the l:)ody-whorl, and 

 that, judging from the Jersey specimens in the collection of the Rev. R. 

 Boog Watson, it must be very common. A multiplication of them may 

 always be looked for. 



Exhibits. 



Mr. W. Nelson exhibited a fine series of examples of Planorbis naittiletts 

 from various Yorkshire and other localities. 



Mr, E. R. Sykes showed a full set of Dorsetshire shells — about seventy- 

 five in number, including twenty-five or more new county records, being 

 species never before seen from Dorset by the Society's referees. Among 

 these were Vertigo nioiilinsiatia from Morden, Helix pisana from an 

 inland locality at Muston Down, Pisidiitni roseitin from Bloxworth, Achatina 



