308 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



W. Denison Roebuck) ; Mr. James Mitchell, Glasgow (by James Steel and 

 Thomas Scott). 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : Report of 

 Trustees of Australian Museum for 1889 (from the Trustees) ; R. B. Wood- 

 ward on the Pleistocene (non-marine) Mollusca of the London District, 

 1890 (from the Author). 



Donation to Collection announced and thanks voted : Various 

 shells from Newsholme near Wressle, S.E. York (Mr. J. Beanland). 



Letter Read : From Mr. Isaac B. Hardy, Santa Barbara, California, 

 wishing to be put in exchange relationship with British collectors of marine 

 shells who desire fine examples of Pacific Coast species. 



Exhibits. 



On behalf of Mr. Tliomas Scott, F.L.S., a depressed example oi Helix 

 aspersa from near Rothesay, Bute. 



On behalf of Mr. J. W. Dixon, marine shells from Sennen Cove, 

 Cornwall. 



By Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L. S., numerous miscellaneous land 

 and freshwater shells. 



185th (Annual) Meeting, Saturday, 20th Dec, 1890. 



At Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



The meeting was opened at 3 p.m., the chair being occupied by the 

 Piesident, Mr. Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S. 



Messrs. W. E. CoUinge and J. W. Taylor, F.L. .S., were appointed 

 Scrutineers, and Messrs. Edgar R. Waite, F. L.S., and W. Denison 

 Roebuck, F.L. S., auditors. The meeting was then suspended. 



At 4 p.m. the chair was again taken by the President. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting having been confirmed, the 

 Hon. Secretary, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., read the Annual Report 

 of the Council [printed at p. 311], the Treasurer, Mr. Lionel E. Adams, 

 B.A., submitted his audited Balance Sheet [see p. 313], the Recorder read 

 the Report on the Records [see p. 314], and the Report of the Manchester 

 Branch [see p. 313] was read on behalf of Mr. Robert Standen, the 

 Secretary of the Branch, who was unable to l^e present. 



The various reports were adopted, on the motion of Mr. John W. 

 Taylor, F.L.S. 



Election of Officers. 



The Scrutineers then reported that 34 members had voted, and that 

 the following had been duly elected to fill the various offices for 1891 : — 

 President— Rev. R. Boog Watson, B.A., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. , Cardross, 



Dumbartonshire. 

 Vice-Presidents — J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., Manchester; 



Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S.., London ; Alexander Someryille, 



B.Sc, F.L.S., Glasgow; John W, Taylor, F.L.S., Leeds, 



J.C , vi., Jan,, 1891, 



