356 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE MANCHESTER BRANCH. 



SEPTEMBER i6tH, 1893. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, 



During the past year the Manchester Branch has steadily increased in 

 strength. We have lost one member by death and one by resignation, but 

 eight new members have been elected, and we now number forty-five. 



The monthly meetings have been extremely well attended, and the 

 interest shown in the proceedings is unabated. Numerous specimens have 

 been exhibited, and, together with the numerous notes and papers con- 

 tributed, have been full of interest, and given occasion for much discussion 

 and interchange of ideas and information amongst the members. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Branch, held in the Owens College on 

 May 13th, the members made a capital exhibition of special groups ot 

 Mollusca, principally marine, from Foreign as well as British shores. This 

 extension of their field, besides increasing the interest of the members in 

 the ordinary business of their meetings, will doubtless prompt the scientific 

 study of British as well as Foreign Mollusca and their distribution. 



The following Notes and I'apers have been read : — 

 By Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A. : ' A description of the animal of Nautilus 



pompilins L. ;' and ' On the Luminous Organs of certain Cuttlefishes.' 

 By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. : ' On a variety of Cypraa cnienia Gmel. ; ' and 



' Preliminary Remarks on a Collection of Marine Shells from Lifu, 



Loyalty Islands, recently presented to the Owens College Museum.' 

 By Messrs. W. Nelson and R. Standen : ' Observations on the Misplace- 

 ment of the Names of Type and Variety in Hyalinia piira Alder.' 

 By Messrs. J. Grafton Milne and Charles Oldham : 'The Molluscan Fauna 



of Bowdon and District.' 

 By Mr. L. St. George Byne : 'An account of the occurrence of rieitro- 



branchus membraiiacetis Mont., in Teignmouth Bay.' 

 By Mr. R. Standen : ' Land and Freshwater Mollusca collected around 



Portsalon, County Donegal, Ireland.' 

 By Messrs. R. Standen and J. Ray Hardy: 'The I^and and Freshwater 



Mollusca of Oban and District and the Island of Lismore. ' 



The general collection of British Land, Freshwater, and Marine 

 Mollusca in the Cabinet placed at the service of the Branch by the Owens 

 College authorities has been largely increased by the donations of members 

 and friends, and the specimens have been temporarily arranged. It is 

 hoped in course of time to have the entire collection catalogued for more 

 ready reference by the members. 



The Library of the Branch has received several valualjle donations 

 of useful conchological works from various members. — R. Standen, Hon. 

 Secretary Manchester Branch. 



J.C., vii., Apr. 1894. 



