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Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L. S., exhibited a number of Scottish 

 captures by Mr. Wm. Evans, including Pisidium roseum and Valvata 

 cristata from Otterston Loch, Fife, Sphi'erium lacustre from Burntisland, 

 Fife, Helix rupestris from Duddingston, near Edinburgh, etc. ; and a num- 

 ber of Lincolnshire shells collected by Mr. J. Burtt Davy, including caddis- 

 cases from the Foss Dyke near Pyewipe House (North Lines ), which bore 

 numerous examples of Bythinia leachii, B. tentaailata, Valvata piscinalis, 

 Sphccriiun corneiim, Physafontinalis, Planorbis vortex, PL albus, a Succinea, 

 and one Helix hispida ; also H. virgata vars. subdeleta and alba from Driby, 

 Line. N., the last-named attached to the inside of a broken pheasant's egg ; 

 and an example of Clausilia rugosa var. erasa from a tree trunk near 

 Hardraw Foss, North-West Yorkshire. 



182nd MEETING, 8th OCTOBER, 189O, 



Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



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



New Member Elected : Mr. James Crawford, Port Elizabeth, South 

 Africa. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : Mr. James Howard, 

 Lee, London, S.E. (I:)y Messrs. Edgar A. Smith and W. Denison Roebuck) ; 

 and Mr. Frederick Wm. Fierke, Hull (by Messrs. W. Denison Roebuck and 

 J. Darker Butterell). 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : —The Naturalist; 

 Rules of the American Association of Conchologists ; Records of the 

 Australian Museum, vol. i., no. 3. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : — From 

 Mrs. Edward Passavant, a numerous miscellaneous collection of shells, 

 recent and fossil ; from Mr. J. H. Rovvntree, Helix lapicida, Thun, Switzer- 

 land ; from Mr. W. West, F. L. S., Balea and Buliimis obscurus from l:)etween 

 Scarborough and Seamer ; from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, H. virgata and 

 var. stibJeleta from Leigh, Essex, H. caperata and var. o/tiata from Shoe- 

 buryness, and Btili/nus obscurus, Clausilia laminata and var. albinos from 

 Headley Lane, Surrey. 



Papers Read, 



' A List of Shells from the Tizard Bank, China Seas,' by Edgar A. 

 Smith, F.Z.S., Pres. Conch. Soc. [printed in Journal of Conchology, Oct., 

 p. 265]. 



' Notes on the Food of some of the British Mollusks,' by W. A. Gain, 

 M.C.S. 



' Arion minimus (Simroth) a British slug,' by Robert F. Scharff, Ph.D., 

 B.Sc, M.R.LA. [printed in the Journal of Conchology, Oct., p. 267]. 



' New British Marine Shells,' by J. T. Marshall [printed in the Journal 

 of Conchology, Oct., p. 260]. 



Exhibits. 



On behalf of Mr. J. Madison, were shown a number of specimens of 

 Cyclostoma elegans, Sphcerium lacustre, and S. ovale, from various localities. 



