206 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGTCAL SOCIETY. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : 



Mr. Philip James Ruftbrd (proposed by Messrs. A. G. Alletsee and 

 Robert Cairns), and Mr. Henry Crowther, F.R.M.S. (by Messrs. John W. 

 Taylor, F.L.S., and William Nelson). 



Paper Read : 



A note by Dr. Heinrich Simroth, an honorary life member of the 

 Society, entitled ' Some Remarks with respect to Mr. Wotton's Paper on 

 the Life History of Avion afer,'' was read [and is printed in the present 

 number, p. 208]. 



Exhibits : 



On behalf of Mr. J. A. Hargreaves were shown some examples, much 

 decollated, oi Linincea glabra, from Scarborough. 



On behalf of Mr. J. Madison were exhibited specimens of the same 

 species from Hall Green, near Birmingham. 



On behalf of Mr. F. W. Fierke : Examples of Helix Jioitensis var. 

 castanca 00300. from Cottingham Road, Hull ; H. nanoralis vars. libelhtla 

 12345 hyalozonata and lihelhtla 00300 Jiyalozonata, from Burst wick, near 

 Hull ; Vertigo edeutitla and V. pygnnra from Speeton Clifts, and of the 

 last named from Drewton Vale, all in South-East Yorkshire. 



The Recorder showed a large number of Scottish shells sent by Mr. W. 

 Evans, F.R.S. E. , for authentication, including Vertigo edentiilo from Crom- 

 dale, near Grantoun, co. Elgin ; Caiyc/iiiii/i, Hyalinia glabra, H. fulva, 

 H. pura var. 7nargaritacca, and Helix pygmaa from the banks of the Avon 

 above Ballindalloch, Banffshire. H. radiatula from Ballindalloch, Banff- 

 shire, and Helix pygvtaa from Ballindalloch Castle, Elginshire, all of 

 which are new county records, none of them having been before submitted 

 to the Society's referees from the respective counties. 



213th Meeting, Wednesday, May 31st, 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 respective Editors : The Naturalist and British Naturalist for June, 1893. 



From the Manchester Museum : Museum Handbooks : Catalogue of 

 the Type Fossils, by Herbert Bolton, 1893 '■> ^"'^ Outline Classification of 

 the Animal Kingdom, second edition, 1892. 



From the respective Societies : Journal and Proceedings of Royal 

 Society of New South Wales, vol. xxvi., 1892 ; List of ICxchanges of same, 

 31st Dec, 1892; Abstract Proceedings of Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales, 29th March, 1893 '■> "^"^^ Transactions of Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, part 18, 1893. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : 



From Mr. W. Howard : Six-banded and other examples of Helix 

 nemoralis from Adel, near Leeds. 



J.C, vii., July 1893. 



