10 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Alteration of Rules. 



On behalf of the Council, Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill proposed, and Mr. 

 Lionel E. Adams seconded, a resolution to alter the wording of the loth and 

 1 2th rules in order to permit of future annual meetings being held at a more 

 climatologically convenient time of year than hitherto, and in order to 

 facilitate, by holding these meetings successively in different parts of the 

 country, the bringing together annually as numerous a body of members of 

 the Society as is possible. The proposals were well discussed, the meeting 

 being heartily in accord with the object aimed at, and eventually the motions 

 were passed in the following form : — 



(1) That Rule lo be amended by the omission of the words ' in Leeds.' 



(2) That Rule 12 be amended so as to read : ' The Annual Meeting 

 shall be held at such time and place as may be fixed at the previous Annual 

 Meeting, to receive the Reports and Balance Sheet of the outgoing Council, 

 and to elect a Council and Officers for the ensuing year ;' and it was further 

 resolved, on the motion of Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, M.A. , seconded by Mr. 

 Darbishire, that it be referred to the Council to fix the place and date of 

 meeting for 1892 and to make all the necessary arrangements. 



Vote of Thanks. 



The best thanks of the Society were then voted to the authorities of the 

 Owens College and to the Manchester Branch, its officers and members, for 

 the kind reception which they had given to the Society, on the motion of 

 Mr. Masefield. 



New Members Elected : 

 Mr. Henry Ernest Craven, Matlock Bridge. 



Mr. Arthur Trevelyan Daniel, M.A., Richmond Terrace, Stoke-on-Trent. 

 Mr. John Christopher Eccles, 20, Winckley Square, Preston. 

 Mr. Henry Hoyle Howorth, M.P. , F.S.A. , etc,, Bentcliffe House, Eccles. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : 



Mr. Joseph Henshall was proposed by Mr. E. Collier and seconded by 

 Mr. R. Standen ; and Mr. Albert Gregory Alletsee, proposed by Mr. Wm. 

 Moss and seconded by Mr. Robert Cairns. 



The meeting was then adjourned for refreshments, which were provided 

 in the Refectory of the Owens' College. 



The meeting was resumed in the same room at 6-30 p.m. 



The president, Rev. R. Boog Watson, B.A,, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., then 

 delivered the Annual Address, taking as his subject, ' The Relation of the 

 Terrestrial and Freshwater Mollusca of the Madeiran Islands to those known 

 Elsewhere' [printed at pp. 1—7 of this number]. 



At the conclusion of the address, a hearty vote of thanks to the President 

 was moved by Mr. Edward ColHer, seconded by Mr. Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., 

 and carried unanimously. 



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