PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 36 1 



Meeting 



HELD JUNE 4TH, 1 885. 



Mr. Wm. Nelson occupied the Chair. 



Correspondence from several members and societies was 

 brought before the meeting. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor read a communication from Mr. Bryant 

 Walker, of Moffat Buildings, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., asking 

 members of the Conchological Society to exchange British and 

 European land and freshwater shells for species from Michigan 

 and adjacent States. Mr. Walker has about one hundred 

 duplicate species, exclusive of Unionidse, that he can dispose 

 of. 



NEW MEMBER. 



Mr. Lionel Adams, B.A., 5, Park Street, Stafford, was 

 nominated for membership. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were brought before the meeting : 

 " The Darts of British Helicidae."— Mr. C. Ashford. 

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



vol. ix., part 4. — The Society. 

 " Rules and List of Members of the Linnean Society, N.S.W." 



— The Society. 

 " Abstract of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, N.S.W." 



— The Society. 



PAPER READ. 



" A Supplementary Authenticated List of the Mollusca of 

 Northamptonshire," by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. R. Scharff, Ph.D., B.Sc, sent a small box of shells 

 from Chingford, S. Essex, amongst which were examples of 

 LimncEa auric2ilaria^ L.pcregra, L. truncatula, Planorbis vortex, 

 P. contortits, P. albus, P. carinatus, Paludina vivipara, and 

 SphcBfium corrieum. 



