PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 169 



Donation to Cabinet Fund announced and thanks voted : 

 From Mr. Hubert Elgar : 5s. 



New Members Elected : 

 Mrs. H. G. Brierley, Glen View, Gledholt, Huddersfield. 

 Mrs. Janet Carphin, i, Lauriston Park, Edinburgh. 



Mrs. Louisa J. Smith, Monmouth House, Monmouth Street, Topsham, 

 Devon. 



Papers Read : 



By Mr. Theo. D. A. Cockerell, F.Z.S : ' Arion occidentalis, an 

 apparently new species ' [to be printed in ' J. of C.']. 



By Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A.: ' A Theory as to the Possible Intro- 

 duction oi Hydrobia jenkinsi'' [printed in 'J. of C.,' Jan., 1893, 148 — 150]. 



By Mr. Robert F. Scharff, B.Sc, Ph.D., M.R.I. A.: 'Helix nemoralism 

 the Pyrenees ' [printed in 'J. of C,' Jan. 1893, vii., 157]. 



By Messrs. Wm. Nelson and Robert Standen : ' Observations on the 

 Misplacement of the names of Type and Variety in Hyalinia para ' [printed 

 in 'J. of C.,' January, 1893, vii., 151 — 153]. 



By Mr. Loftus St. George Byne : ' The Marine Mollusca of Teign- 

 mouth' [printed in 'J. of C.,' April, 1893, pp. 175 — 188]. 



Exhibits : 



Mr. Harold Wright, present as a visitor, showed a number of Marine 

 Shells from various localities. 



Correspondence : 



A letter from the venerable naturalist, Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A. 

 (formerly Jenyns), who is now in his 93rd year, was read, with reference to 

 the type specimens of the Pisidinni nitiduiii which he described in a paper 

 published by the Cambridge Philosophical Society between sixty and 

 seventy years ago, and mentioning that his cabinet of British Shells, 

 wherein is a drawer devoted to Cyclas and Pisidiiun, is now in the 

 Museum of the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution, where it is available 

 for inspection by conchologists and students. 



2o8th Meeting, Wednesday, January iith, 1893. 

 Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 

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



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



From the Editor : The Naturalist for January, 1893. 



From the Society : Abstract Proceedings of Linnean Society of New 



South Wales, November 30th, 1892. 



From the respective Authors : Mr. R. B. Newton on Clionetes pratti \\\ 



Western Australian Carboniferous Rocks, 1892 ; and Mr. Chas. T. Simpson, 



Notes on the Unionida; of Florida and the South Eastern St^Ctes, 1892. 

 Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : 

 From Mr. George Roberts : Numerous species of shells from Ledstone, 



Holywell Wood (near Pontefract), Water Fryston, Loflhouse, Milford, 



Rothwell Haigh, Wressle, and other Yorkshire localities. 



