360 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



MANCHESTER BRANCH. 



Meeting held at Owens College, Sept. 14th, 1893. 



The President, Mr. R. D. Darbishire, in the chair. 

 New Members Elected : 

 Mr. G. W. Chaster, 42, Talbot Street, Southport. 

 Mr. P. W. Abbot, 44, Brasenose Street, Manchester. 



Paper Read : 



'The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Oban and the Island of 

 Lismore,' by Messrs. R. Standen and John Ray Hardy. 



Donation to Library: 



By Mr. Chas. Oldham : A copy of Brown's Mollusca, for which the 

 thanks of the meeting were tendered to him. 



Exhibits : 



By Messrs. Standen and Hardy : A mounted series of the shells 

 described in their paper, which were afterwards presented by them to the 

 Cabinet of the Branch. 



By Mr. R. D. Darbishire : Sphida peronii taken on the Donegal 

 coast this year ; young hocardia cor, and two remarkably fine specimens of 

 Fusus islandiciis, recently obtained in Carmarthen Bay. Mr. Darldshire 

 presented the F. islandinis to the Cabinet, a most acceptable addition to the 

 collection. 



By Mr. R. Cairns : H. hortensis, H. rotundata, distorted CI. 7-iigosa, 

 and Vertigo substriata, from Isle of Man. The Vertigo is an addition to 

 the Manx list. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Cylindrella triiiitaria, with perfect apices, and 

 Cyclotus trattshicidus, from Trinidad ; and a very fine series of H. hortensis, 

 H. lapicida, H. cantiana, and Cydostoma elcgans, collected by himself at 

 Christchurch Road, Hants. 



By Mr. Chas. Oldham : Fine specimens of Unio tumidiis, from Mar- 

 bury Mere, a new Cheshire locality for this species. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Specimens of BuHmiis, Orthalictis, and Ainpularia 

 from British Guiana ; and a series of very beautiful Helix rotundata var. 

 alba from near Woolwich. 



By Mr. R. Standen : H. concinna from Ballintrae, co. Antrim, found 

 living about two feet above high water tide mark on wet rocks on the shore ; 

 P. miiscorum from Bundoran, co. Donegal ; a large series of white-mouthed 

 H. neinoralis var. hyalozonata from the Bundoran sandhills ; and a beautiful 

 set of lanthina roticndata, all collected by Mr. Brockton Tomlin during last 

 August. Mr. Tomlin obtained the lanthinas alive in considerable quantity, 

 thrown up on the shore at Ballintrae.— R. Standen, Hon. Sec. 



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