PROCEEDINGS : SEPTEMBER I4, IQIO. lij 



By Mr. R. Harrison : Liinv.vasiagnalis, L. peregra z.n^ L. palustris; SphcETiiim 

 corneuvi and Biihynia ieniaciila/a from pits at Reddish— also examples of the same 

 species from Reddish Canal, taken from a point where the water is warmed by the 

 engine water from adjacent cotton mills, and in consequence the Biihynias, especially, 

 . are particularly clean and free from the black incrustations so frequently seen on 

 shells from the pits and canals around Manchester. 



By Mr. T. H. Piatt : Helicigona arbiistoritm and Helix hortensis from Miller's 

 Dale. 



By Mrs. Gill : Cypraa atirantia, C. i/uis, C. scotti, C. stercoraria and varieties, 

 and other species. 



By Mr. G. C. Spence : Poriiatias elegans from wood at end of Promenade, 

 Arnside, Westmorland ; Claiisilia bidentata, a curious variety from Malham ; H. 

 cantiana 2S\d. H. lapicida from Wensley Dale; H. arbustontm and "love-darts," 

 from Barnard Castle ; H. hortensis from Greeta Bridge ; living H. potnaiia, collected 

 by Mr. H. J. Stalley at Titsey Hill, .Surrey, and a number of interesting photographs 

 of the same. 



By Mr. J. W. Jackson : Acanthiniila lainellatavdiX. albida from Kildale, Yorks., 

 collected by Rev. J. Hawell ; a remarkably fine example of Amvionites excavattis 

 from the Coral Rag, Shotover, presented to the Manchester Museum by Prof. W. 

 Boyd Dawkins. 



394th Meeting-, held at Manchester Museum, September 14th, 1910. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 



" A Buried Valley at North Sea Landing, Flamborough." " Classified I^ist of 

 Organic Remains from the rocks of the East Riding of Yorkshire," " Recent 

 Geological Work in the Humber District," " Bibliography, List of Papers 

 referring to the Geology and Paleontology of East Yorkshire and North Lincoln- 

 shire, 1906-9," by T. Sheppard ; "Monograph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca 

 of the British Isles," part 17, by John W. Taylor ; " Manual of Conchology," 

 part 81, by H. A. Pilsbry ; "On some Land Shells collected by Dr. Hiram 

 Bingham in Peru," " Summary of the Shells of the genus Conus from the Pacific 

 Coast of America in the U.S. National Museum," by W. H. Dall ; " Concholo- 

 gische Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg," by Dr. H. 

 S t rebel ; "On the occurrence in England of Valvata viacrostoiiia Steenbuch," 

 by A. S. Kennard and A. W. Stelfox [from the respective authors) ; and the usual 

 periodicals received in exchange. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Arthur Walton Rowe, M.S., M.B., M.A.C.S., F.G.S., Shottendane, Margate. 

 A. M. Oliver, i, Fenham Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Papers Read. 



" Succinea oblonga in Merionethshire," by J. E. Cooper. 

 ^' Paliidestrina fenkinsim Merionethshire," by J. E. Cooper. 

 " Helix nemoralis with band formula 12045," ^y F. B. Jennings. 

 " On the dart oi Helix undata Lowe," by G. C. Spence. 



" A double-mouthed Claiisilia bidentata near Warton, W. Lancashire," by 

 J. W. Jackson, F.G.S. 



" On Ethalia nevilli Sowerby," by J. R. le Brockton Tonilin, M.A. 



