238 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETV. 



Papers Read : 



A short note 'On a Variety of Cypma criienta Gmel.' by Mr. James 

 Cosmo Melvill, j\I A., F.L.S., was read [printed in 'J. of C.,' July, 1893, 



p. 194]- 



A paper entitled 'Contributions towards a List of the Marine Mollusca 

 of the upper portion of Loch Linnhe, Argyllshire,' by Mr. G. A. Frank 

 Knight, M.A. , was read [printed at p. 232 of the present Number]. 



Exhibits : 



On behalf of Mr. Tom Fetch, B.A., of King's Lynn, were shown a fine 

 typical very pale-coloured adult of Liviax marginatus {— arboru}>i) and a 

 juvenile example of L. maximtts var. fasciaia from Holt, East Norfolk, 

 where they had been found on a wall, after a thunder shower. 



215th Meeting, Wednesday, July 26th, 1893. 



Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



Mr. Henry Crowther, F.R.M.S., in the Chair. 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : From the 

 respective Authors : L. E. Adams on Conchology as a Popular Science, 

 1893 ; W. Moss and F. Paulden on the Reproductive Organs of Bulinius 

 aciitus, with plate, 1S93 ; P. B. Mason on the Irish Aran, with seven plates ; 

 Heinrich Simroth, Some Remarks with reference to Mr. Wotton's paper on 

 the Life-History oi Arion aier, 1893 5 I^- J- Lechmere Guppy on The Land 

 and Freshwater Mollusca of Trinidad, 1893 ; R. Standen on Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca collected around Portsalon, co. Donegal, Ireland, 1893 ; 

 and T. D. A. Cockerell on Climate and the Variation of Slugs, June, 1893. 



From the respective Societies : Abstract Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, 31st May, 1893 ; and Annual Report for 1S92 

 of the Manchester Microscopical Society. 



From the Editor : L'Echange Revue Linneenne for March, April, and 

 May, 1893. 



Donations to Collection announced and thanks voted: 



From Mr. J. E. Cooper : Tapes aureus, Haliotis tuberculata, Claiisilia 

 perversa, and Chiton marginatus from Guernsey ; Tellina crassa, Tapes 

 virgineus Y3.X. sarniensis, Venus veriucostis, Tapes pullastra. Patella vulgata, 

 Trochus Jivibilicatus var. agatJiensis, T. zizypJmiits with double operculum, 

 Phasianella pulla. Lacuna pallidula, Loripes lacteiis, Trochus exasparatus, 

 Murex aciculalus, Helix pisatta, II. acuta, and H. virgata from Jersey ; 

 Psammobia vespeitina, Fissurella grceca, and Pissoa cancellata from Herm ; 

 Tfochtis linealus horn. La Rocque, Jersey; Pcctunculus glycymeris, Sokn 

 ensis, and S. vagina from Grouville Bay, Jersey ; Dentalium tarentinum 

 and D. entalis from Shellness, near Deal, Kent East ; Hydrobia ulva from 

 Aldeburgh, Suffolk ; Assi7ninea grayana from Purfleet, Essex ; Planorbis 

 lincatus from Barnes, Surrey ; PL carinatus from Finchley, Middlesex ; 

 Paludina vivipara, Anodonta cygnea, and Unto tumidus from the bathing- 

 pond at Hampstead, Middlesex ; and Helix pisana var. alba from St 

 Sampson's Bay, Guernsey. 



J.C, vii., Oct. 1893. 



