PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGTCAL SOCIETY. 26 1 



Meeting 



HELD AUGUST 7TH, 1 884. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor, Vice-President, presided. It was unani- 

 mously agreed that the president, Mr. Geo. H. Parke, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., should represent this society at the forthcoming meeting 

 of the British Association at Montreal. 



SPECIMENS .EXHIBITED. 



A very peculiar example of Limax maximus from Airy 

 Holme Wood, NE. Yorkshire, was sent by Mr. Baker Hudson 

 for exhibition. The animal had two dark bands enclosing a 

 light dorsal area, and will be described on a future occasion by 

 Mr. W. D. Roebuck, F.L.S. 



The chairman showed on behalf of Miss Ffoulkes Taylor, 

 of Kenilworth, specimens of Bulimus tridens from Fiesole, 

 Italy, Helix veriniculata from Firenze, Italy, Pupa friimentum 

 and P. cinerea from Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, and Testacella 

 Maugeii from Axbridge, N. Somerset ; on behalf of Miss Fair- 

 brass Testacella haliotidea var. smtulum from Folkestone was 

 shown ; also mounted dissections of Succhiea putris and S. 

 elegans . prepared by Mr. C. Ashford ; and a large number of 

 shells from Ringwood, South Hants. 



Mr. W. D. Roebuck exhibited a living specimen of Helix 

 lactea taken by the railway side at Pateley Bridge; also numerous 

 examples of Helix tieuioralis, H. hortensis, and H arbustorum 

 collected at Gunnerside in Upper Swaledale, together with 

 Zonites cellarius, Z. nitidulus, Helix concinna, &c. Most of the 

 H arbustorum were of the alpestris form, and there were some 

 good examples of the var. minor of H. hortensis. 



Meeting 



HELD AUGUST 28TH, 1 884. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor, Vice-President, in the chair. The 



following DONATION 



was announced : — 



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

 vol. ix. part i. 



