PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 36 1 



2i8lh Meeting, Weiinesday, October 4th, 1893. 



Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



Mr. John W. Taylor, F. L.S., vice-president, in the chair. 



Library Purchase announced : A Contribution to the Geology and 

 Natural History of Nottinghamshire, by J. W. Carr, M.A., 1893 (containing 

 a full list of the mollusca by Mr. 15. Sturges Dodd). 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : From the 

 Society : Evkonyve, 1892-3 Jahreshefte des Naturwissenschaftlichen 

 Vereines des Trencsener Comitates, 1893, with plates. 



From the respective Editors : The British Naturalist and the Naturalist 

 for October. 



Donations to Cabinet Fund announced and thanks voted : From 

 Dr. R. F. Scharfif and Mr. J. G. Milne, five shillings each. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : From 

 Mrs. Janet Carphin : Flyalinia nitida and Caiyrhiiuii niini/ninn kom Faldon- 

 side, Roxburghshire ; Helix actileata, Fl. pyiiimEa, and Bidiniinus obsaints, 

 from Elwand, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; Valvaia piscinalis, V. cristaia, 

 Pisidiwn //liliuni, P. /msillnin, Physa fontinalis, Planoibis allms, PL 

 cojitortus, PL fgntantii, Liiiuuva palustris, L. peregra var. lacustris, and 

 L. atiriculaiia var. acuta, from Faldonside Loch, Roxburghshire; Helix 

 hispida and var. albida. Pupa cylindracca, Succijiea elegans, Pisidiuni Jvn- 

 tinale, Livinaa palustris, Planorbis conlortus, Flyalinia nitidula, FF. nitida, 

 and FI. puia var. viargaritacea, from Clovenfords, Selkirkshire ; Vertigo 

 f^/(?«/'///a, from Craigiehill Wood, Linlithgowshire: ?^T\A FFelix pygnuva a.nd 

 Planorbis nautileus from Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire, all being new 

 authentication-records for their respective counties. 



New Member Elected : 

 Mr. James Clark, M.A., Ph.D., Assoc.R.C.S., Lecturer in the York- 

 shire College, Leeds. 



Decease of Member : 



The death of Mr. G. W. Shrubsole, F. G. S., of Chester, was 

 announced ; and it was resolved that the Secretary convey to the 

 family an expression of sympathy at the loss which they and the Society 

 have sustained. 



Paper Read : 



A paper by Messrs. R. Standen and J. Ray Hardy, which had 

 previously been read before the Manchester Branch, ujoon ' The Land 

 and Freshwater Mollusca of Oban and the Island of Lismore ' was read 

 [and has been printed in the 'Journal of Conchology,' October, 1893, 

 pp. 266 — 274]. 



Exhibits : 



On behalf of Mr. J. R. Brockton Tomlin, B.A., were shown a 

 number of slugs from the Island of Guernsey, including a deep reddish- 

 brown and a nearly white example of Avialia gagales, as well as typical 

 specimens of that species and of A. carinata, FJiiiax Jlavus, Arion 

 Jwricnsis, A. ater var. marginata, and Limax viaxinms var. cellaria. 



