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CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



PROCEEDINGS 



223rd Meeting, Wednesday, March 14th, 1894. 



Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 



Mr. John W. Taylor, F.L..S., V.P., in the chair. 



Library Purchases announced: (i) Clark's History of British Marine 

 Testaceous Mollusca, 1855 ; (2) Macgillivray's History of the Molluscous 

 Animals of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine, 1S43. 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 



L'Echange Revue Linneenne, Nos. 103 to 106, Juillet to Oct., 1893 ; 

 Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 276 to 279 and 281, Octobre to Decem- 

 bre, 1893, and Janvier and Mars, 1894 5 British Naturalist, part i, Jan. 1894; 

 and The Naturalist, No. 224, March, 1894 — all from the respective editors. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, vol. ix., for 1892 — 93 ; 

 Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, vol. 

 i, part 2, 1891 — 92 ; Abstract of Proceedings of Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales, Aug. 30, Sep. 27, Oct. 25, Nov. 29, 1893; Records of the 

 Australian Museum, vol. ii, No. 5, Sep., 1893 — all from the respective 

 Societies or Institutions. 



Papers by R. F. Scharff on the Geographical Distribution of Gcoma- 

 lacus maculosus , 1893 ; by John Brazier on the Linnean Murex co metis found 

 living on the coast of the Island of New Caledonia, South Pacific Ocean, 

 Jan., 1889; by the late George Gordon on the Probability of a Mollusc 

 {Bulla striata), not yet classed in the British Fauna, being found on the 

 Northern vShores of Scotland, 1892 ; by Robert E. C. Stearns, Ph.D., on 

 Recent Collections of North American Land, Freshwater and Marine Shells 

 received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1894 ; by Dr. R. Bergli 

 on Eine Neue Gattung von Polyceraden (^Greilada), 1894; and by A. Merle 

 Norman, D.C.L., on a Month on the Trondhjem Fiord, 1893, in two parts 

 — all from the respective authors. 



Isaac Lea's Check List of the Shells of North American Unionidce, n.d., 

 from Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F. L.S. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : 



A small collection of freshwater shells from Loch Tay, Mid-Perthshire, 

 including Valvata piscinalis, Pisidiuin pusillum and v. obttisale, P. milium, 

 P. fontinale, and Limnaa pereora, the two first-named being new records for 

 the vice-county ; from Mr. Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



A few shells collected in Banffshire, at Inchrory, Glenavon, in June, 

 1893, including Limncea pengra. L. auricularia var. acuta, L. truncattila, 

 Ancybts fliiviatilis and var. albida, Bulimiis obsczD'tis, and Helix arbiis- 

 torum, the Ancylus ■i.wA. Litnncea aiuicularia being new records for the 

 vice-county; from Mr. Lionel W. Hinxman, of H. M. Geological Survey. 



