2 74 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



i8ist Meeting, 6th August, 1890, 



Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



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



Candidate for Membership Proposed: Mr. James Crawford, of 

 Port Elizabeth, South Africa (proposed by Mr. J. H. Ponsonby and Mr. J. 

 Cosmo Melvill). 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : Weitere 

 Beitriige zur Kenn'niss der Pleurophyllidien, 1890, and Report on Nudi- 

 branchs dredged liy the Blake in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, 

 1890 (both from the author, Dr. Rudolph Bergh) ; The Naturalist. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : Varieties 

 Pecten operadaris from Mount's Bay, Cornwall, dredged at 30 fathoms ; 

 and of P. varius, dredged at 15 fathom^;, Falmouth Harbour ; Cyprcea 

 eitropaa, fresh specimens from beneath stones at low water in Falmouth Bay ; 

 and Cyp. inoneta, gathered upon the beach at Seascale, Cumberland (all 

 sent by the Rev. Charles Crawshaw) ; Pecten islandiciis and Fusiis 

 propinqmis from Scotland (sent by Mrs. Brockbank) ; and numerous 

 British marine shells sent by Mr. B. Sturges Dodd ; these included Baiieeia 

 rubra from Sennen Cove, Hydrobia ulvce var. albida from Chapel, Lincoln- 

 shire, Cyaminni minii'.ii.m from .St. Ives, Cornwall, Mya trtmcala from 

 Mablethorpe, Myfihcs eduKs var. pallida, Mactra stidtontm var. cinerea, 

 and Scrobiadaria alba from Siitton-on-Sea, Tiirritella terebra from Round- 

 stone Bay, Connemara, Loripes lac tea from .St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey, Cardmtn 

 edide var. fasciatum from Mablethorpe, Lasi^a rtdtra from Deer Island, 

 Connemara, Rissoa costata, R. reticulata, R. inconspiciia var. variegata, 

 R. cinqillus, R. striata, and Clbciuii trachcea from Roundstone, R. parva 

 from Jersey, the last also from Cornwall, Ccecuin glabnini from Guernsey 

 (10 — 18 fathoms), and Utrictdtis obtusus from near Burnham, Somerset. 



Letters Read : From Dr. R. A. Philippi, of Santiago, Chili, thanking 

 the Society for his election as one of the ten honorary members. 



From Dr. Heinrich Simroth, intimating his purpose to communicate to 

 the Society accounts of the results of his future researches into the natural 

 history of the LimacidiTC. 



Exhibits, 



On behalf of Mr. Henry Laver, F.L.S. , Colchester, a small sinistral 

 specimen of Buccimi/ii undatum, which was taken off Harwich in April of 

 this year, by a fisherman who catches whelks for bait, and also for sale as 

 food ; another sinistral example was taken by the same fi.sherman. 



Mr. William Nelson showed Sph<v?iuiii lacnstre from a pond between 

 Seacroft and Scarcroft, Yorkshire. 



On behalf of Mr. J. Madison were shown a couple of specimens of 

 Dreissena polymorpha from the Oakford Canal, near Brinklaw. 1 hey were 

 very beautifully marked specimens, having a broad white band running from 

 the apex to the front margin. 



The Chairman showed numerous shells sent by Mr. Thomas Scott, 

 F.L.S., the Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, M.A., and Rev. S. Spencer Pearce, M.A. 



J.C, vi., Oct., 1S90, 



