PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 1 39 



with the Editor, and your Council recommend the continuance of these 

 arrangements, wliicli have worked to mutual satisfaction. 



The Society's Collections, which are deposited at the Museum of the • 

 Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, and are in part displayed for 

 jjublic inspection, have been materially augmented during the y.ar. Among 

 the donations, special attention may be called to an interesting series of East 

 Indian shells, given by Miss J. E. Linter ; to a large number of Devon- 

 shire and Somersetshire shells as new records for those counties, presen-ted 

 by Messrs. L. E. Adams and C. Oldham ; and to a considerable number of 

 new records presented for Scottish counties, from Mrs. Carphin. Donations 

 of smaller extent, but none the less appreciated, are from Messrs. J. B. 

 Rosevear, J. W. Dixon, Rev. II. Milnes, Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, L. E. Adams, 

 W. Denison Roebuck, Rev. Dr. Geo. Gordon, Rev. W. C. Hey, J. D. 

 Butterell, R. S. Ferguson, R. Barnes, E. Self, Miss Mary Kimber, A. H. 

 Pawson, P. H. Grimshaw, W. Evans, II. Richardson, Arthur Mayfield, 

 C. Ashford, and E. D. Marquand. 



The Society is indebted to Messrs. H. Champ, W. Bendall, J. R. B. 

 Masefield, H. Coates, W. Whitwell, D. Robertson, Lieut. -Cob G. S. Parry, 

 Mr. Hubert Elgar, Mrs. Evans, and Mrs. J. Hodgson, for donations in 

 money towards the fund for providing Cabinets and glass-topped boxes for 

 the proper display of the specimens ; in several instances these being aiiiiital 

 donations. 



The Curator has devoted considerable attention to mounting and label- 

 ling the accessions to the collections under his care, but finds that his avail- 

 able leisure time is hardly sufficient to cope with the work. Your council, 

 therefore, recommend that Sub-Curators be appointed to co-operate with 

 Mr. Nelson in the work, and would be. glad if members — no matter whether 

 resident in Leeds or not — would volunteer their services in this wa)-. 



The Curator would be glad to receive donations, firstly — towards the 

 Type Series, in scientific order, which he is forming, and, secondly— towards 

 the series of County and Geographical Collections. In respect of these last, 

 your Council are sorry that the request made in the last annual report — 

 that Lancashire members would contribute a series from their county — has 

 met with little or no response. 



The Library has increased during the year by numerous donations and 

 a few purchases. The principal additions have been a set of the concho- 

 logical publications of the British Museum, from the trustees, and a large 

 number of reprints of Papers on Indian Mollusca, by various authors, pre- 

 sented by Mr. G. K. Gude, while other donations have been received from 

 Messrs. R. B. Newton, E. A. Smith, G. F. Tregelles, Rev. R. B. Watson, 

 M. Cossmann, T. D. A. Cockerell, W. Crouch, R. Bergh, A. L. Reade, 

 W. Denison Roebuck, J. W. Taylor, J. Brazier, Rev. CarletDn Greene, 

 A. C. Gatto, R. E. C. Stearns, and F. W. Wotton. 



The Hon. Librarian (Mr. Edgar R. Waite) has further to report that 

 moderate use is made of the Library by members of the Society, and your 

 Council would remind members that the Library is available, with but little 

 restriction, for the use of members resident in any part of the British Isles. 



