3l6 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. I3, NO. lO, APRIL, I912. 



408th Meeting', held in the Manchester Museum, Jan. loth, 1912. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Additions to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



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

 of America," by Paul Bartsch {from the aittkor). "Report on the MoUusca of the 

 West Coast of North America." 1S57, by P. P. Carpenter (presented by E. IV. 

 Swanton). "Exchange List of Land and Marine Shells from Australia and the 

 Adjacent Islands," by J. C. Cox. " Faune Malacologique Terrestre et Fluviatile 

 de I'lle de Saint-Domingue," by H. Crosse. " Des Tiphobies du Lac Tanganika," 

 by J. R. Bourguignat. " Etude sur le Genre 'Fouiatias^ Studer," by M. Caziot. 

 "Synopsis, etc., Molluscorum Viventium Testaceorum, anno 1877-1879 promulga- 

 torum," by W. Kobelt {presented by J. IV. Taylor); and the usual periodicals 

 received in exchange). 



Members Deceased. 



Robert Cairns. Mrs. A. Powell. 



Votes of condolence with the relatives were passed, and the Secretary was desired 

 to express to them the deep sympathy with which the Council and Members had 

 heard of their bereavement. 



Appreciative references were made to Mr. Cairns as a genial companion and a 

 zealous conchologist, who will be a great loss to the Society. It was intimated that 

 an obituary notice was being prepared, which would be read before the Society and 

 published in the Journal. 



Papers Read. 



" Cyprcea pantherina Sol. in Saxon Graves," by J. W. Jackson, F.G.S. 



" Notes on the Non-Marine Mollusca of Mortehoe, North Devon," no. 3, by 

 Mrs. M. J. Longstaff, F.L.S. 



"Additions to the Mollusca of South Devon and the Record of a New Locality 

 for Uncommon Species in North Devon," by Mrs. M. J. Longstaff, F.L.S. 



" Notes on the Eucalodiida" by G. C. Spence. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. Edward Collier : Valvaia macrostonia Steenb. near Lewes, and for com- 

 parison V. piscinalis from Lewes and Southport, the latter collected in 1876 ; also 

 V. cristata from York ; Planorbis vorticiiliis Troschel from Sussex ; and the same 

 species from Poland for comparison. 



By Mr. J. Davy Dean : Valvata macrostonia from Karegnando, Tornea, Lapp- 

 mark ; V. frigida from the same locality ; and V. piscinalis from Muonioniska, 

 Tornea — all within the Arctic Circle, and all from the Christiernenson Collection. 

 The River Tornea divides Sweden from Finland for some distance and runs into 

 the Gulf of Bothnia just in its most northerly part. Hyalinia petronella Charp. 

 and H. hammonis vStrom, both from Hasselfors, Nerike, Sweden ; and also H. 

 hammonis Strom and H. itidentata Say from America for comparison. H. petron- 

 ella is considered by Kobelt as a variety of H. radiatula, and H. hammoiiis is only 

 synonymous with the same species. 



By Mr. J. W. Taylor : Living Vitriiia hibernica from the Temple Demesne, 

 Collon, Ireland, collected by Mr. F. H. Grierson ; and a dissection of the retractor 

 muscle of Helicigona arbicstorum by Miss Lebour. 



By Mr. C. H. Moore : A number of species of Cerithiiim, Conns, and Ancilla. 



By Mr. G. H. Taylor : Limmea pe7-eger var. expansa, from the Macclesfield 

 Waterworks, Teg's Nose, 1907 ; also the same form from Windermere (collected by 

 Dr. H. Brooksbank, Sept., 1911). 



