314 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Treasurer and Secretary — Mr. Thos. W. Bell. 



Recorder — Mr, W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. 



Coiincil—yh. Baker Hudson; Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., 



F.L.S. ; Mr. Robert Scharff, Ph.D., B.Sc. ; Mr. Wm. 



Cash, F.G.S. ; Mr. Geo. S. Tye ; and Mr. J. W. Taylor. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



A large number of specimens were brought up for exhibi- 

 tion. The chairman shewed Helix virgata var. depressa from 

 Bordeaux. Examples of Unio margaritifera from the river 

 Conway at Llanrwst, were shewn on behalf of Mr. R. D. Darbi- 

 shire. Mr. W. D. Roebuck exhibited shells from Malton, 

 Hornsea, Maltby. Bath, Brimscombe near Stroud, Mount 

 Nessing in South Essex, and Grange ; also Anodonta cygnea 

 from Irchester, Lhnax maximiis from Horsforth, Limax Icevis 

 from Golspie Burn in Sutherlandshire, Helix aspersa, H. arbus- 

 torum^ H sericea, H. caperafa, H hispida, H. rufescens, H 

 rotundata, H aculeata, Clausilia rugosa, C. laminata, Zua 

 lubrica, Pupa umbilicata, Zonites cellarius, and Z. alliarius from 

 Lindale near Grange. 



THE ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Committee are glad to be able to report that the work 

 of the society for the past year shows cause for satisfaction. 

 The usual monthly meetings have been regularly held. Papers 

 and annotated lists have been communicated by Mr. A. W. 

 Nichols, Mr. Baker Hudson, and Mr. Wm. Denison Roebuck. 

 A list of the mollusca of Northamptonshire, authenticated by 

 the society's referees, has been prepared from the society's 

 record books by the recorder, and published. 



The number of specimens that have been shown, both 

 British and Foreign, has exceeded the exhibits of any previous 

 year, and have included the best from several large collections. 

 For assistance rendered in this way the society is especially 

 indebted to Messrs. Baker Hudson, E. Pickard, J. W. Taylor, 

 H. P. Fitzgerald, R. D. Darbishire, C. T. Musson, W. Denison 

 Roebuck, S. C. Cockerell, and others. 



J.C, i v., April, 1885. 



