388 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Paper Read : 



List of Land and Freshwater MoUusca occurring in the Maidstone Dis- 

 trict, illustrated by a full series of voucher-specimens presented to the 

 Society's Collection, by Messrs. Hubert Elgar and Henry Lamb. 



Exhibits : 



The Chairman showed numerous examples of varieties of Linincea, 

 including L. aicricularia var. reflexa from the Huddersfield Canal, var. 

 7noTaiensis from R. Falka at Dublin, var. vionnardii from Frankfurt-am- 

 Main, var. acuta from the Stratford Canal at Bearley, var. aaitalis from 

 Newsham, Lanes., L. pahistris \-SiX. expansa from near Shoal Lake, Mani: 

 toba, L. stagnalis var. 7-aphidia from the Lago di Piano, near Como, and var. 

 fossarina from Rossclare Bay, Lough Erne, co. Fermanagh. 



On behalf of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell were exhibited Clcncsilia plunibea 

 and CL elagans from Transylvania, Helix costata var. cyclophorella Ancey, 

 Zonites jtilvits var. chersina Say, Z. radiatuhis, Patula striatella Anth., 

 and Pupa viargmata var., all from West Cliff, Custer County, Colorado ; 

 Agriolimax hemphilli var. tnactdata T.D.A.C., from Haywards, Calif., 

 collected by Dr. Cooper; A. agrestis var. sylvatica Moq., Oakland, Cal., 

 Mr. Raymond ; A. campestris, Binney, var.. Lake Merced, San Francisco 

 Co., Cal., Mr. Raymond; Limax flavjis, Washington, D.C., Mr. R. E. C. 

 Stearns; and Pj-ophysaon andersoni Coop., collected by H. Hemphill, near 

 Oakland, Cal. 



On behalf of Mrs. Smith of Topsham, Devon, were shown the following 

 to authenticate new records for South Devon : Zonites drapartialdi, Cary- 

 chium. Helix cantiana, and Dreissena, all from Topsham, and Succinea 

 putris and S. elegans from the canal-banks at Topsham. 



i88th Meeting, Wednesday, 8th April, 1891. 

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



New Members Elected : 



Mr. Gerald Wheatley Adams, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., the Infirmary, Stock- 

 port, Cheshire. 

 Mr. James Benjamin Beckett, 11, Lancaster Road, Great Yarmouth. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : 



Lady Lyons (by Rev. Jno. Hawell and W. Denison Roebuck) ; Mr. 

 Gerald Eliot Hadow (by J. H. Burkill and E. R. Sykes) ; Mr. William 

 James Farrer (by Edward Collier and R. Standen) ; M. Cesar Felix Ancey 

 (by J. W. Taylor and W. Denison Roebuck); Mr. J. H. A. Jenner, F.E.S. (by 

 J. W. Taylor and W. Denison Roebuck) ; Rev. C. A. Williamson, M.A. 

 (by Rev. Carleton Greene and W. Denison Roebuck) ; and Mr. C. IL 

 Morris (by J. W. Taylor and T. S. Hillman). 



The Decease of three prominent members was announced, Miss E. 

 B. Fairbrass, of Faversham, Kent, one of the oldest members of the Society ; 

 Mr. William Jeffery, of Ratham, near Chichester, an ex-president, and Mr. 

 Clifford Burkill, one of the most promising of the younger students of 



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