l6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



manner, and your Council trust that the Members will continue to avail 

 themselves more and more of the privileges thus available. 



The I^ibrarianship has been vacant for the greater part of the year, the 

 member who was appointed to this office at the last Annual Meeting having 

 resigned and left Leeds. It gives your Council great pleasure to announce 

 that a most suitable successor has been found in the person of Mr. Edgar R. 

 \yaite, F.L.S., whose position as curator of the Museum in which our 

 Library is deposited, renders the ajDpointment, should it be ratified by this 

 Annual Meeting, a particularly appropriate one. 



The sub-committee which was appointed at the last Annual Meeting 

 for the purpose of preparing a new list of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca 

 of the British Isles have reported that they have compiled a first draft, which 

 is now under revision as to a few knotty points which have yet to be settled, 

 and that they hope to have their list ready to print in an early number of the 

 'Journal,' together with a series of explanatory notes as to the reasons which 

 have influenced them in regard to certain needed corrections of nomen- 

 clature, and as to the principles by which they are actuated in the treatment 

 of the question as to the extent to which varieties are to be admitted. 



Your Council have had under consideration the question as to the date 

 at which the Annual Meetings are held, and have authorised certain pro- 

 positions to be laid before you for such amendment of the rules as will 

 enable future Annual Meetings to be held at such season of the year as may 

 be found more suitable and more climatologically propitious for enabling 

 members to attend at least one meeting of the Society yearly in larger 

 numbers than it is possible to expect at ordinary meetings. 



The Recorder reports that at the end of the fourteenth year 

 during which the authentication system has been carried out the total 

 number of Records made and vouched for stands at 31,405 records, 

 representing an average number of 42 species for each of the 149 

 counties and vice-counties into which the British Islands are divided. 

 A considerable and very satisfactory amount of attention has been 

 paid to the completion of the Scottish census, while some little 

 attention has been paid to Ireland, although the number of Irish records 

 made falls very far short of what is desired. The four blank counties 

 (Queen's, Carlow, Longford and Galway East), reported last year are still 

 blank, no records whatever having been submitted from them. There are 

 also various counties, eleven in number, from which the total number of 

 species recorded has not yet reached ten each, viz. : — Radnorshire, Ebudes 

 South, Shetlands, Cavan, Kildare, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Roscommon, Clare, 

 Tipperary North, and Cork North ; and it would be very desirable that 

 attention should be particularly directed to these neglected areas, and our 

 recorder and referees allowed to inspect the results. The most considerable 

 additions made this year are a number of Flintshire shells sent by Rev. 

 Thos. Shankland, of Mold, and of Dumfriesshire and other Lowland Scottish 

 species submitted by Mr. Wm. Evans, 



The Treasurer's Report, and that of the Manchester Branch, will be sub- 

 mitted to you separately. 



J,C., vii., Jan,, 1892, 



