JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 21^ 



PROCEEDINGS of the CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting 



HELD MAY 1ST, 1 884. 



Mr. Thos. W. Bell presided. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



Messrs. James Madison, E. J. Elliott, and Mrs. Skilton 

 were elected members of the Society. 



PAPER READ. 



"A List of Land and Freshwater Shells of Peterborough 

 and district," by Mr. A. W. Nicholls. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The Chairman showed a number of fossil land and fresh- 

 water shells from the tertiaries of the Isle of Wight which had 

 been collected by Mr. C. Ashford. Amongst them were 

 specimens of Helix occlusa, H. Vectensis, Paludina angulosa, 

 Plano?-his discus, Limncea ftisiformis, and others ; also several 

 species of recent shells from Knottingley and other places, 



On behalf of Mr. W. Nelson was shown a small series of 

 fossil marine shells, also from the tertiary beds of the Isle of 

 Wight. 



Meeting 



HELD MAY 29TH, 1 884. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., in the chair. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were announced as having been 

 received since the last meeting : — 



"Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales." 

 " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales." 

 "Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, part vii." 



NEW MEMBER. 



Mr. Bostock, of the Radfords, Stone, Staffordshire, was 

 nominated. 



