396 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



1891 ; Proceedings of Linnean Society of New South Wales, June, 1891 ; 

 Naturalist for August and September, 1891 ; L'Echange for January to 

 August, 1891 ; Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes for July and August, 1891, 

 with Catalogue de la Bibliotheque, fasc. 12 ; and Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales. 



Other Library Additions announced as follows : Reeve's British 

 Land and Freshwater MoUusks (1863), Rutty's Natural History of County 

 Dublin (1772), and Maton's Natural History of Ten Miles round Salisbury 



(1843)- 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : Collection 

 of the Shells of the Penistone District, sent by R. Nash and S. Elley ; Shells 

 from Wainfleet, Line. North, sent by J. Burtt Davy; etc. 



Papers Read : 



A note on Achatina acicula in a Roman Cemetery at Ventimiglia, in the 

 Italian Riviera, by Rev. J. E. Somerville, B.D., and a short note ' On some 

 Testacellse,' by Dr. Heinrich Simroth, were read, and will in due course be 

 printed in the Journal of Conchology. 



Exhibits : 



On behalf of Rev. George Gordon : Limax cinereo-niger and L, 

 arborum from Banffshire. 



On behalf of Mr. Charles Oldham: numerous gatherings of /"/j/^n^w, 

 including P. roseicm, P. fontinale, and P. nitidum from Rhos Neigia, Angle- 

 sea, P. fo7itinale and P. piisillum from Marston, P. nitidum from Jesmond 

 near Newcastle, P. roseuin from Budworth Mere, and P. piisillum from 

 Swalwell near Gateshead. 



On behalf of Mr. Bickerton Morgan : Sphcerium rivicola from the Shrop- 

 shire Union Canal, Pool Quarry, Welshpool. 



On behalf of Mr. Thomas Scott, F. L. S. : S. laaistre from a pond near 

 Dunbar, N.B. 



On behalf of Mr. Hubert Elgar : Planorbis marginatus from Snodland 

 Marshes, Kent. 



On behalf of Mr. J. Grafton Milne : spirit specimens of Amalia cari- 

 nata from the bed of the River Helisson at Megalopolis in Arcadia, Greece. 



On behalf of Rev. Herbert Milnes : A scalariform specimen of Helix 

 arbustoritm, and Limncea truncatula, both from W^inster, Derbyshire, and 

 Sphizrium lacustre from Filey. 



By the Chairman : A number of British Shells for which he had obtained 

 M. J. R. Bourguignat's determinations, including Z/wwi^a rubella, L. acutalis 

 f. minor, L. langsdorffii f. major, L. lineata Bean, L. fusca, L. fragilis, 

 Clausilia taylori (new species, a form of CI. dubid), Pisidium obstusale aff., 

 P. casertanum , Splmrium pallidum, S. pisidioides. Helix tacapica, H. meit- 

 dozce, and H. heripensis. 



The Chairman also showed examples of Succinea elegans from various 

 Hampshire and Dorsetshire localities whose specific identity had been 

 established by Mr. Charles Ashford from anatomical examination of the 

 animal ; remarking on that gentleman's authority that the difficulties of 



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