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Hon. Treasurer — Lionel E. Adams, B.A., Penistone. 



Hon. Secretary and Recorder — Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 

 Leeds, 



Hon. Curator — William Nelson, Leeds. 



Hon. Librarian — W. E. Collinge, Leeds. 



Council — Thomas William Bell, Leeds; Walter Ckouch, F.Z.S., 

 Wanstead, Essex ; K. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S., Manchester; 

 Rev. Edward S. Dewick, M.A., London; John IL Ponsonby, 

 F.Z.S., London; 13. B. Woodward, E.G.vS., F.R.M.S., London. 



The meeting was then adjourned. 



At 6-30 p.m., the chair was again taken by the President. 



New Members Elected : 



Rev. John Hawell, M.A., vicar of Ingleby Greenhow, Northallerton. 

 Mr. Alfred Hawes, Penistone, Yorkshire. 

 Mr. James Mitchell, (Glasgow. 



Candidate Proposed for Membership : 



Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. (by W. Denison Roebuck and J. W. Taylor). 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : De Gregorio, 

 Studi su talune Conchiglie Mediterranee. l885) and Gasteropodes, I'Ann. 

 Geol., 1888 (from M. Cossmann) ; 20 reprints of his own papers (Rev. R. 

 Boog Watson) ; 2 reprints (Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell) ; 3 reprints (Mr. 

 Thomas Scott) ; List of Members of American Association of Conchologists 

 (the Association) ; and Prospectus of vStawell School of Mines (the School). 



Donations to Collection announced and thanks voted .• Helix 

 ericeloncin var. and H. caiitiana from Ostend, collected by J. T. Carrington ; 

 Liinnxa palustris var., Planorhis parvus^ and Succima lineata from rejecta- 

 menta of JMuddy Creek, Kremmling, Colorado ; Ilyalina nitiiia, from 

 Dover Plains, Duchess Co., New York, collected Nov. 1889, by W. S. 

 Teator, and Helix caperata from Isleworlh, Middlese.\ (all from Mr. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell) ; Helix ele^ans from Dover (Mr. C. Stanley Bell Cox) ; Zonites 

 cella7'ius\7cc. albinos from Cottingham, and an exotic Stenogyra from Femie- 

 hurst, Shipley (Mr. Frederick Rhodes). 



President's Address. 



The President, Mr. Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S-, opened the meeting by 

 delivering his valedictory address as President for 1890, taking as his subject 

 " The Nomenclature of Certain Genera of British Land and Freshwater 

 Shells " [to be printed in J. of C. for April]. 



At the conclusion of the address it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. 

 W. E. Hoyle, M.A., seconded by Mr. John W. Taylor, F.L.S., supported 

 by Mr. W. Nelson and other members, that the thanks of the Society be 

 voted to the President for his address, and that with his consent it be 

 printed. 



