424 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Shells from West Linton, Peeblesshire, including a single young Pupa 

 cylindracea, several Verligo edentula, and a few each of V. snbstriata. Helix 

 fiisca, Sphceriiim laciistre and Pisidiiim milium ; from the Rev. Wm. Turner. 



Teclura iestudinalis from Dunoon, Argyleshire, and Helix rotundata 

 from Dumbuck, Dumbartonshire ; from Mr. Alexander Shaw. 



Various Scottish shells, including Helix hortensis and Limax cinereo- 

 niger (dried) from The Doune, Rothiemurchus, Easterness vice-county ; 

 Pupa cylindracea and Clausilia perversa from the Isle of May, Fifeshire, 

 Aug., 1893; Succinea putris from Keilsden near Largo, Fife, 30tli Aug., 

 1893; Planorbis spirorbis ixom Drumshoreland, Linlithgowshire, 13th Sep., 

 1893 ; and various species from Luffness Links ; all from Mr. Wm. Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. 



Dieissensia polymoipha, a couple of valves from the canal, Gamston, 

 Notts. ; from Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.L.S. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership : 



Mr. Kenneth Hurlstone Jones (proposed by Messrs. Robert Standen 

 and Loftus St. George Byne) ; and Mr. Frederic E. Daniel (proposed by 

 Messrs. A. T. Daniel, M.A., and John W. Taylor, F.L.S.). 



Paper Read : 



A short paper by Mr. Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., entitled ' Note on the 

 Genus Balea,' was read, and has since been printed in the Journal of Con- 

 chology for July, 1894, p. 389. 



Exhibits, etc. : 



The Chairman showed a series of the original inimitable drawings of 

 dissections of slugs made during the past ten years by the late Mr. Charles 

 Ashford. 



Mr. Henry Crowther, F.I-l.M.S., then gave a preliminary account of 

 some interesting observations he had recently made in investigating some 

 points in the life-history of Sphceritim corneum from Leeds and Liverpool 

 canal specimens, promising to give a microscopical demonstration of them at 

 a succeeding meeting. 



224th Meeting, Wednesday, April 4th, 1894. 

 Held at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. 

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

 Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 

 The Naturalist, No. 225, April, 1894 ; and Feuille des Jeunes Natur- 

 alistes, No. 282, Avril, 1894 — from the respective Editors. 



Donations to Cabinet Fund announced and thanks voted to donors: 

 Five shillings each from the Rev. Carleton Greene, Mr. Henry Coates, 



F.R.S.E., and Mr. J. Bassett Dixon. 



Donations to Collections announced and thanks voted : 



Shells from Corsica, including Helix aspersa, H. lenticiila, and Clausilia 



porroi from Ajaccio ; H. aperta, H. pisana, H. virgata, H. barbara, and 



J.C, vii., Oct. 1894. 



