362 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



MANCHESTER BRANCH. 



Meeting held at Owens College, October 12th, 1893. 



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

 Donation to Library : 



By Mr. J- W. Taylor : A number of Reprints of Papers from the 

 'Journal of Conchology,' for which a vole of thanks was tendered to the 

 donor. 



Paper Read : 



'The Marine MoUusca and Brachiopoda of Oban,' by Dr. G. W. 

 Chaster and Mr. W. H. Heathcote. 



■ Exhibits : 



By Messrs. Chaster and Heathcote : Series of the 195 species described 

 in their paper. 



By Mr. G. W. Chaster : Fine sets of the following species : — Hiicciniini 

 itndatitin vars. flexiiosa, zdlandica, and alba, from Shetland ; monst. 

 aaiiniuatum and other unnamed varieties and monstrosities from Whitstable ; 

 Fusits antiquits var. striata and Fusiis bernicensis, from Bristol Channel ; 

 Fttstis gracilis and var. convoluta from Isle of Man, var. coidsoiii from 

 Shetland, and var. heUiaiia from Bristol Channel ; Fiisiis noiufgicits, 

 Sea/aria trevdyaiia, Trochiis occidcntalis, A'atica islandica, and N. gra-n- 

 landica, from North Sea. 



By Mr. T. Rogers : Varielies of Biiccinitift iindatiii/i from several 

 British localities. 



By Mr. A. T. Daniel : Live Hydrobia jenkinsii from canal at Wolver- 

 hampton — a new British locality. — R. .SxANDEN, Hon, Sec. 



219th Meeting, Wednesday, Noyember ist, 1S93. 



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 late Author : Histoire Malacologique du Lac Tanganyika, par 

 J. R. Bourguignat, and Iconographie Malacologique des Animaux 

 Mollusques Fluviatiles du Lac Tanganyika, par J. R. Bourguignat. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted. 



From Mr. Arthur G. vStubbs : Specimens of Sp/ucriitm rivicola, 

 S. corneum, Bythinia tcntacidata, B. Icacliii, Valvata piscinalis, Planorbis 

 carinalus, PI. vortex,' PI. corncus, PL itmbilicatiis, Neritina, and 

 Limnaa aiiricnlaria from the Nottingham Canal. 



From Mr. J. G. Milne : Slugs from Montenegro. 



From Dr. R. F. Scharff : Specimens of extended mollusca killed 

 by acetic acid. 



From INlr. T. P". Burrows : Liimuca aiiricuiaria from the tanks at Kew. 

 Papers Read ; 



A paper on the ' Land and Freshwater Molluscs of P^ast Norfolk ' by 

 Rev. S. Spencer Pearce, M.A. , and Mr. Arthur Mayfield was read [and 

 will be printed in a forthcoming number of the ' J ournal of Conchology]. 



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



