PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGTCAL SOCIETY. 2 1 



The correspondence, which has been unusually large, has 

 also been of an interesting character; and the Exhibits have 

 been much more numerous than in any previous year. 



Papers have been communicated by the President, Mr. W. 

 Jefifery and Mr. Chas. x\shford. 



Specimens have been sent for exhibition by Mr. Jefifery and 

 Mr. J. W. Cundall. The President, Rev. H. H. Milnes and 

 Messrs. W. Nelson, J. W. Taylor, W. D. Roebuck and the 

 Secretary, have also contributed largely to the number of 

 exhibits that have been made. 



The Library has been enriched by valuable Donations from 

 A. Ramsay, F.G.S., the Editor of the Scientific Roll; the 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales; and the Trustees of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



The scheme for making Authenticated County Records of 

 Mollusca has been well received; several members co-operatmg 

 most heartily with the Committee by sending lists and submitting 

 specimens to the Society's Referees for identification. The 

 Committee hope soon to be able to pubUsh some of these 

 records, which they believe will greatly tend to increase our 

 knowledge of the distribution of the mollusca. 



THE recorder's REPORT FOR 1 88 2. 



The Recorder of the Conchological Society has to report 

 that during the past year the Record System, hitherto practically 

 confined to Yorkshire Land and Freshwater Mollusca, has 

 been extended, so as to include records bearing upon the 

 molluscan faunas of the other counties of the British Isles. 

 He has also to report that the total number of species and 

 records, in authentication of which voucher-specimens have 

 been shown at the meetings and examined by the society's 

 referees, has been largely in excess of the number shown in any 

 previous year. This is mainly attributable to the labours of 

 Messrs. W. Nelson, W. West and W. D. Roebuck, who have 

 all shown numerous specimens from Yorkshire localities (besides 



