132 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



New Cabinet : 



The Secretary (Mr. Standen) announced that the Cabinet placed at the 

 service of the Branch b)' the Owens College authorities was now ready for 

 the reception of specimens contriliuted by members, and some liberal dona- 

 tions were promised. 



Exhibits : 



By Mr. W. E. Hoyle : A collection of shells from the Victoria Nyanza, 

 collected by Emin Pasha, including Planorbis staiileyi Smith, Melania 

 tiiherculata Miill., Pahidina unicolor Oliv., Cleopatra emini Smith, Corhi- 

 ciila radiata Parr., Unio bakeH A. Ads., and a form of (probably) Limi- 

 colaiia cailliaiidi. 



By Mr. F. Ciordon Pearcey : A richly-coloured and interesting sub- 

 scalariform specimen of Tivc/ms zizyphiniis, dredged in eight fathoms, at 

 Campbellton Loch, Scotland ; and Acvte lineata, from Merionethshire. 



By Mr. Ed. Collier : An interesting series of Helix neinoralis, from 

 Mappleton, Dovedale, Derbyshire. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Pisidiiim piisiUiiin and Limnaa triincatiila var. 

 minor, from Isle of Man ; Helicina ariiciiiafa, H. sithhxvigata, Stenogyra 

 artensis, S. jiincea. Helix sinistrorsa, Hydrac<?iia grajium, from Lifu, 

 Loyalty Islands. 



By Mr. Thos. Rogers : Helix nemoralis and H. Ji07-feiisis, from Den- 

 mark ; some large and very thin-shelled H. arlutstonnn, from Ben Laoigh, 

 Scotland, and a series of land shells from Tenby. — R. Standen, Hon. Sec. 



2o6th (Annual) Meeting, Tuesday, November 4th, 1892. 



Meld in the Botanical Laboratory, Owens College, Manchester, at 

 6 p.m. 



The Chair was occupied by the President, Rev. Canon Alfred Merle 

 Norman, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc. 



The attendance included about fifty members and friends, the list of 

 signatures bearing the names of Messrs. W. Denison Roebuck, P\L.S., 

 Hon. Secretary; Lionel E. Adams, B.A.. Hon. Treasurer; Edgar R. 

 Waite, F.L.S., Hon. Librarian ; J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., and John W. 

 Taylor, F.L.S., Vice-Presidents ; R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S., and 

 W. E. Hoyle, MA., Members of Council; Rev, H. G. Barnacle, M.A., 

 Thos. F. Burrows, Loftus St. G. Byne, R. Cairns, H, Champ, E. Collier, 

 A. T. Daniel, Hugh Fulton, Conrad Gerland, D.Sc. , W. H. Heathcote, 

 Thos. Hey, Alfred Leicester, P. B. Mason, J. P., F.L.S., Rev. Herbert 

 M lines, Wm. Moss, F.C.A., Charles Oldham, Tho.s. Rogers, R. Standen, 

 and J. M. Williams, besides a few visitors. 



The minutes of the 205th meeting were taken as read and confirmed. 



Library Purcliases announced : Mrs. Merrifield's Natural History 

 of Brighton, 



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