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Locard as due to the part played in pagan times by this and other 

 cowries in connection -with the ciift 'of Venus,- as sy^w-boHc of the 

 generative forces of nature. The other two exceptions are Helix 

 pomatia L., and an elongate form of the same, called H. pyrgia l)y 

 M. Bourguignat. M. Locard considers that — judging from these 

 shells — H. poiiiatin has degenerated and that the ancient examples 

 were larger and stronger than now-a-days. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND 



403rd Meeting, held at Manchester Museum, June 14, 1911. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Additions to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



" New Species of .Sliells from Bermuda," by W. H. Dall and P. Bartsch. 

 "New Mollusks of the Genus Aclis from the North Atlantic"; " The Recent and 

 Fossil Mollusks of the Genus Ceriihiopsis from the West Coast of America"; 

 " The Recent and Fossil Mollusks of the Genus Bitthiin from the West Coast of 

 America " — all by P. Bartsch {from the authors) ; and the usual periodicals re- 

 ceived in exchange. 



New Member Elected. 



George Curtis Leman, 44, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C. 



Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



Airs. Susan A. Hitchon, Rhyddington, Oswaldtvvistle, Lancashire. 



Papers Read. 



"A Prehistoric Cypnea tigris L. , in Hants.,"' by J. R. le Brockton Tonilin, 

 M.A., F.E.S. 



" Pahfdestrina jenkinsi .Smith in Hampstead Bathing Pond," by Griffith 

 Humphreys. 



" Index of the Notes on British Non-Marine Mollusca in \.h& Joii7-)ia/ of Con- 

 ckology, vols. I — 12," by the Rev. Canon J. W. Horsley, M.A. 



" The Unnatural History of .Snails," by the Rev. Canon J. W. Horsley, M.A. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J- Kidson Taylor : AnipJiidroiiius hri'iis var. kissereusis ; A. haviatus ; 

 many varietal forms of A. adamsi •, and very fine examples of Calocochl.a seniperi 

 and C. harfordi. 



By INIr. L W. Baldwin : A fine series of Helix niazzuUii, H. desertorum, H. 

 ligala, and H. lactea var. a/lm. 



By Mr. C. H. Moore : A banded form of LiniUiTa pereger from I'oynton 

 Towers near Stockport. 



By Mr. J. R. le Brockton Tonilin : Live shells from Sicily, including /?V//.v 

 sicatia Fer. , H. f;iazzii///i ja.n ; Clausilia affnis va.r. t.ainonietn'ca Monis. ; H. 



