124 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



SPECIAL NOTICE.— The Hon. Treasurer leaves Penistone at 

 Christmas, and, from the beginning of the year 1893, his address 

 will be : Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A., 15, York Road, North- 

 ampton. Members are particularly desired to note this, in order 

 that there may be no delays in correspondence. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



203Rn Meetinc, Friday, 19TH August, 1892. 



Held (by special invitation of the President) at Burnmoor Rectory, 

 Fence Houses, Co. Durham. 



Rev. Canon Alfred Merle Norman, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. 



Mr. Richard Howse, Curator of the Newcastle Museum, and others, 

 were present as visitors. 



New Members Elected : 



Mr. Tom Brown, 237, Beverley Road, Hull. 



Mr. Bartlet .Span, Heywood Mount, Tenby, Soutli Wales. 



Exhibits : 



The whole day was devoted to the careful and minute inspection of the 

 President's fine and extensive collection of mollusca and marine inverte- 

 brates, but unfortunately very few members were present, owing to the 

 great distance, and, perhaps, in some measure, lo the time of year. Those 

 who were unable to accept their President's invitation most certainly missed 

 a great treat. Dr. Norman had taken the troul)le to carry down to the village 

 school-room about 140 drawers of shells, which he had most conveniently 

 arranged for inspection. He made many interesting remarks upon the various 

 specimens to which particular interest attached, and gave an extremely 

 interesting discourse upon the genus Bttcciniun and its varieties. 



His collection is specially devoted to the Terrestrial and Aquatic (l)oth 

 marine and freshwater) Mollusca of the Pakearctic Region, which embraces 

 Europe, the parts of Africa and Arabia which lie north of the Tropic of 

 Cancer, Persia and Afghanistan, and all to the north of those countries, 

 together with the entire Russian Empire, and the Islands of the Madeiran 

 Province so far as regards their Terrestrial Fauna. His marine collection 

 includes the Fauna of luirope, together with that of the Arctic and North 

 Atlantic Oceans, and the seas connected with them. The North Atlantic 

 Ocean is regarded as terminating towards the South at lat. 35° N., or at a 

 line drawn from a little to the south of the Straits of Gibraltar on the 



J.C. vii.. OcL. 1892. 



