30 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. lO, NO. I, JANUARY, I90I. 



Election of Office-Bearers. 



The Scrutineers reported that sixty-three valid papers had been received, and 

 that the list as nominated by the Council had been duly elected. It was then 

 announced that since the issue of the nomination list Mr. Thos. Rogers had found 

 himself unable to accept the post of Recorder to which he had been elected. It was 

 therefore resolved that Mr. Lionel E. Adams be elected to the office thus vacated, 

 and that Mr. Thos. Rogers be elected a Vice-President in the room of Mr. Adams. 

 The Officers and Council in the list on p. 2 were then declared to be duly elected. 



The Presidential Address 



was then delivered by the retiring President, Mr. E. R. Sykes, who took for his 

 subject: — " Conchology at the Dawn and Close of the Nineteenth Century" (see 



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Exhibits. 



By Mr. Thos. Rogers : Two drawers of Japanese land shells and one of marine 

 shells, from Port Jackson. 



By Prof. S, J. Hickson : A series of nidamental capsules, embryonic, and adult 

 shells of the gigantic Semifiisits proboscidiferus Lam., from Torres Straits (Haddon 

 Coll.). 



By Messrs. J. T. Marshall and J. Simpson : Adula sivipsoni (Marshall), dredged 

 in forty-five fathoms, east of the Orkneys. 



By Mr. J. Ray Hardy : A case of Australian Ostrea, and Ovtila {Neoshnnia) 

 iiniplicata Sow. in situ on Gorgonia, from West Columbia. 



By Mr. Fred. Taylor : A series of mollusca, collected at Wicken Fen, and Physa 

 heterostropha Say, from canal at Guidebridge and Droylsden. 



By Mr. C. E. Wright : Amphipepka g/iititiosa MiiU., living, from Deal. 



By Mr. J. C. Melvill : Pleurotomaria heyrichi Hilg. , Vohita festiva Lam., 1^. 

 aiilica var., Mitra fei-gusoni Lam., M. idee Mel v., M. gigantea Sow., M. be.hheri 

 Hinds, Comis clytospirals'isS.v. & Stand., Cypfcva guttata Gray, Trivia galapagensis 

 Melv., T. ftisca Gray, T. californica Gray, and T. sangninea Gray, from various 

 localities. 



By the Rev. L. J. Shackleford : A collection of Australian Volutidse, including : 

 V. exoptatida Sow. , V. giintheri E. A. Smith, V. kreicslera Ang. , V turneri Gray, 

 V. inariiiorata Swns. , V. ellioti Sow., V. reticulata Lam., V. norrisi Gray, etc., 

 and some exceptionally fine examples of V. fulgctruiii Sow., V. undulata Lam., 

 V. vexillmn Lam., V. fusifoniiis Swn., and V. iiiiperialis Lam. 



By Mr. Thos. Edwards : Varieties ol Pterocera lambis L., from Singapore. 



By Mr. Wm. Blake : Species "of Athatina and Limicolaria, from Ocilonda, 

 Central Africa. 



By Mr. J. D. Dean : A. collection of marine shells from the coast of North 

 Wales, chiefly Barmouth and Penmaenmawr. 



By Mr. J. M. Williams : A number of rare and beautiful varieties of Cyprrea, 

 including C. tigris var. badiotiitens, C. arabica var. nigra, C. lynx var. calcdonica, 

 C. caurica var. obscura, C. stolida var. crossei, C. C7'ibraria var. exnioutheiisis, C. 

 motieta var. barthelemyi, C. mauritiana var. calyx-equina, and colour-varieties of 

 C. mappa, C. pantherina, C. onyx, C. picta, and C. caput-serpeiitis. 



By Mr. E. R. Sykes : Conus cedo-nulli Klein. 



By Mr. G. W. Chaster : Snccinea oblonga, from several Irish localities, Limmea 

 ittvohita, sinistral Helix nemoralis, collected alive at Bundoran, Helix lapicida var. 

 alba from Matlock, and some remarkable forms oi Litnncea peregra, Viviparus vivi- 

 parus, and " repaired " Helix nemoralis. 



By Mr. J. Hill : Succinea putris and Limnaa stagnalis from Derby, Helix, 

 aspersa var. exalbida, and a series of varieties of H. n.'/n^ralis from Mablethorpe.. 



