PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 359 



Election of OfFice-Bearers : 



Mr. B. S. Dodd reported on behalf of himself and co-Scrutineer, that 

 they had received forty-one voting-papers, none of which had been invalid- 

 ated by any informality, and that the following members had received the 

 highest number of votes for the respective offices : 

 For President: Mr. Robert F. Scharff, Ph.D., B.Sc, Dublin. 

 For Vice-Presidents : Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E., Manchester; 



Mr. Philip B. Mason, J. P., F.L.S., Burton-on-Trent; Rev. A. Merle 



Norman, IX.D., F.R.S., Bummoor ; Mr. John W. Taylor, F.L.S., 



Leeds. 

 For Hon. Secretary and Recorder : Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, 



F.L.S., Leeds. 

 For Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Lionel E.Adams, B.A. , Northampton. 

 For Hon. Citrator : Mr. William Nelson, Leeds. 

 For Hon. Librarian : Mr. Henry Crowther, F.R.M.S., Leeds. 

 For the Council: Mr. R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S., Manchester; 



Mr. J. R. B. Masefieli), M.A., Cheadle ; Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, 



M.A., F.L.S., Manchester; Mr. R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., 



London; Mr. John Ponsonby, F.Z.S., London; Rev. R. BooG 



Watson, B.A., F.R.S.E., Cardross, N.B. 



The President having declared these members duly elected to the re- 

 spective offices, the Secretary announced that he was in receipt of letters 

 from Dr. Scharff and Mr. Ponsonby expressing their wish not to serve the 

 offices to which they had been elected, and that another vacancy on the 

 Council was caused by the operation of the alteration in rule giving Mr. 

 Darbishire an ex-officio seat on the Council. 



Whereupon it was moved by Mr. J. C. Melvill, seconded by Mr. R. 

 Standen, and unanimously resolved that Mr. W. E. Hoyle be elected 

 President in place of Dr. Scharft", that Mr. Masefield become Vice-President 

 in succession to Mr. Hoyle, and that Messrs. Edward Collier of Manchester, 

 J. T. Marshall of Torquay, and Charles Oldham of Manchester, become 

 members of the Council in the room of Messrs. Darbishire, Masefield, 

 and Ponsonby. 



Place of next Annual Meeting: 



The newly-elected President, Mr. Hoyle, then gave the Society an invi- 

 tation to hold the Annual Meeting of 1894 in Manchester, and the invitation 

 was cordially accepted, a motion to that effect being duly proposed, seconded 

 and carried. 



The Presidential Address 



was then delivered by the retiring President, Mr. P. B. Mason, J. P., F.L.S., 

 etc., who took as his subject : 'Variation in the Shells of the Mollusca' [the 

 address has since been printed in the 'J. of C.,' Jan. 1894, pp. 328-346]. 



At the conclusion of the address it was moved by Mr. R. D. Darbishire, 

 B.A., F.G.S., seconded by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, M.A., and unanimously 

 resolved, that the best thanks of the Society be tendered to the retiring 

 President for his services during the year, the address just delivered, and his 

 hospitable reception of the Society upon the occasion of its holding a meeting 

 at Burton-on-Trent. 



