138 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETV. 



ANiNUAL REPORT. 



The Council, in presenting their Report for the year 1892, have to con- 

 gratulate the members upon a year of steady and continued progress. 



The membership, which stood at 215 at the date of the last annual 

 meeting, is now 220, composed of 9 honorary life members, 13 ordinary 

 members resident abroad, and 198 ordinary members on the home list. 



Nineteen new ordinary members have been elected during the year. 

 Seven ordinary members have resigned, and six whose addresses are no 

 longer known or ascertainable, have been struck off the list, while the only 

 loss which the Society has sustained by death has been that of one of the 

 honorary life members, M. J. R. Bourguignat, one of the foremost concholo- 

 gists of his school in France. ^ 



Ten meetings have been held since the last annual meeting, one at the 

 residence of our President, by his special and most generous invitation, and 

 the remaining nine at Leeds. The members, unfortunately but few in 

 number, who availed themselves of the President's kind invitation to in- 

 spect his wonderfully complete and extensive collections at Burnmoor 

 Rectory, will have it long in remembrance. 



A very large number of interesting exhilnts have been made at all the 

 meetings. 



The following Papers have been read : — 

 J. R. B. Tomlin — ' Notes on the Marine Mollusca of the North Wales 



Coast, etc' 

 E. A. Smith — ' Descriptions of a New Spondylus and a New Helix.' 

 Rev. J. W. Horsley — ' List of Mollusca found at Meiringen, Switzerland.' 

 R. Star.den — ' Observations on the Reproduction of the Dait during an 



attempt to breed from a sinistral H. aspcrsa.' 

 T. D. A. Cockerell — ' New varieties of American Mollusca.' 

 G. W. Chaster — ' Shell-Hunting in Merionethshire.' 



C. F. Ancey — ' On some Shells from Eastern Bolivia and Western Brazil.' 

 Gerald W. Adams — ' Land and Freshwater Mollusca at Karachi.' 

 Lionel E. Adams — ' List of Derbyshire Slugs.' 

 Miss Amy Warren — ' Contributions towards a List of the Marine Mollusca 



of Killala Bay, Ireland.' 



\\\ addition to which, a large number of short notes, written by Messrs. 

 Robert Standen, W. Denison Roebuck, J. B. Beckett, C. F. Ancey, T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, Lionel E. Adams, Thomas Rogers, E. R. Sykes, E. D. Mar- 

 quand, and Miss F. M. Hele, have lieen read. All these papers and notes 

 have been printed in the 'Journal of Conchology. ' 



Three of the four numbers of the 'Journal of Conchology' have been 

 issued to the members during the year, and the fourth, the issue of which is 

 delayed by the preparation of illustrations, is now in the printer's hands and 

 will be ready before very long. The arrangements for issuing the Journal 

 have been as of late years, in accordance with the agreement entered into 



J.C., vii., Jan. 1803. 



