PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 1 29 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : 



Mr. James Eddowes Cooper (proposed by Messrs. J. B. Rosevear and 

 II. Wallis Kew. F.E.S.) ; and Mr. Tom Fetch, B.A. (by Messrs. F. W. 

 Fierke and W. Denison Roebuck, F. L. S.). 



Exhibits : 



On behalf of Messrs. Lionel E. Adams, B.A,, and Charles Oldham, 

 were shown a large number of shells collected on a walking tour through 

 Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, in the neighboarhood of 

 Exeter, Topsham, Portland, Axminister, Exmouth, Minehead, Watchet, 

 etc., including a well-marked and typical example of the var. mactdata of 

 Limax marginatiLS (arbomvi) from Axminster, hitherto only known as Irish ; 

 several fine adults of var. bicolor oi Avion ater from Topsham ; Litnax JIavus, 

 Amalia gagatcs vars. rava and phunbea, A. sowerbyi and a very black juvenile 

 example, from Exeter ; Avion minimus, from Axminster ; A. subfnsnts, 

 Amalia gagates v. rava, and A. sowevbyi from Topsham ; typical A. gagatcs 

 and A. sowevbyi, from Portland ; Avion mininnis and Limax Levis, from Ex- 

 mouth ; as well as a large number of shells, which were afterwards presentee! 

 to the Society's collection, as being new county-authentication records, 



On behalf of Mr. Charles Oldham were shown Limax Jlavtcs ^.nA ih.Q 

 rare (as British) typical form of Amalia gagates, from Sale, Cheshire. 



On behalf of Mr. ¥. Taylor, of Oldham, were shown several slugs, 

 including the type and vars. bvitnnea, alba, and bicolor (very fine example), 

 of Avion atev, A. hoitensis, Amalia sowevbyi, Limax flavits, and var. 

 aldvovandi o^ L. maximiis. The last-named example is probably the first 

 characteristic one of var aldvovandi on record for Britain. 



205th Meeting, Wednesday, October 5th, 1892. 

 Mr. John W. Taylor, F.L. S., Vice-president, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted. From the 

 respective Editors : Naturalist and Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes for Oct., 

 and L' Exchange Revue Linneenne for August, 1892. 



From the respective Societies : Journal of Hamilton Association 

 (Canada), No. 8, 1891-2 ; Proceedings of Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales, vol. 6, parts 2, 3, and 4, 1891-2 ; and Abstract Proceedings, 27th 

 July, 1892. 



From the respective Authors : R. Bullen Newton on the American 

 Palreozoic Gastropod, Tvematonotus (Hall emend. P. Fischer), and its 

 Identification in Britain, with Description of a New Species (Extr. Geol. 

 Mag., August, 1892) ; Edgar A. Smith, Description of a New Species of 

 Spondylus and a new LLelix ; and G. F. Tregelles, the Marine Testaceous 

 Mollusca of Cornwall, 1885 (with MS. annotations by the author). 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : 

 From Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A. : Liinmca glabva and Sphcevimii 

 lacustre from Thurgoland, Yorkshire. 



