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From the President (Mr. P. B. Mason) : Numerous examples of Helix 

 ericetonim and varieties, and of H. nemoralis from the Irish Isle of Aran, 

 and of the last-named from Bundoran, Ireland ; also several shells from the 

 collection of Revett Sheppard, including Helix cantiaiia and H. hispida 

 from France ; H. candidissima and Claiisilia bidens from Sicily ; H. cornea 

 from Austria ; H. iinideutata from the Swiss Alps ; //. vetitj'icatus from 

 Bengal ; H. cingenda {H. rhodostoma) from Tripoli ; Turbo jicnipt7-i from 

 Switzerland ; Draparnaud's Ttirbo tridens from Mont Blanc ; foreign 

 examples of H. terrestris, Buliimdus t)-ifasciatus, Stcnogyra dccollaia, 

 Theodoxiis inutabilis, Biiliimdiis j-adiatus, Helix circiitata, H. detrila and 

 H. obvoluta, without locality ; the labels and names apparently in the writing 

 of the Rev. R. Sheppard. 



New Members Elected : 

 Mr. John Roseburgh, 54, Market Street, Galashiels, N.B. 

 Mr. Charles Edward Wood, 41, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton. 



Paper Read ; 



A short note by Mr. J. E. Cooper on ''Helix pisana in the Channel 

 Islands,' and illustrated by shells presented to the collection [to be printed 

 in a future Numbei]. 



Exhibit: 



On behalf of Mr. Percy Lund was shown an example of the var. cellaria 

 of Limax niaxinms from Bradford. 



2i6th Meeting, Wednesday, September 6th, 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 Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes for 

 August and September ; L'Echange Revue Linneenne for June ; and British 

 Naturalist for September, 1893. 



From Mr. L. E. Adams, B.A. : On the species of Helicidae found in 

 Japan, by Arthur Adams (June 1868). 



From the respective Societies : Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 South Australia, Vol. XVI., Part 2, and Vol. XVIL, Part i (June, 1S93) ; 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Vol. VII., Parts 

 3 and 4 (March and May, 1893); and Abstract Proceedings of the same, 

 June 28th and July 26th, 1893. 



From the Trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney : Report for 

 1892 ; and the Third Part of lU-azier's Catalogue of the Marine Shells of 

 Australia and Tasmania, dealing with the genus Miirex, 1893. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted. 



From Mrs. J. Fitzgerald : Marine Shells collected at Viareggio, Italy, 

 viz. : — Tornatella tor7iatilis\j., Donax trzmcitltis L., D. semistriahis Vo\i, 

 Turrit ella comimntis L., Pcmdora incequivalvis L. , lantkina nitens Menke 

 var. minor; Nassa inutabilis L. , Tellina nilida Poll, T. incariiata L., 

 T. pulchella Lamk. , T. {Macoina) cumana Da Costa, Ceratisolen legtitnen 



