54 JOURNAL Ol^ CONCHOLOGY, VOL. lO, NO. 2, APRIL, igOI. 



New Members Elected. 



jMiss Caroline Birley, 14, Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, W. 



Mrs. Edith Gould, 17, Dorchester Road, Weymouth, Dorset. 



Mr. William J. Edwards, 96, Palmerston Street, Moss Side, Manchester. 



Mr. John Wilfrid Jackson, 18, Bedford Avenue, Manley Park, Manchester. 



Mr. William Oelrichs, F.R.Met.Soc, 3, We.xford Road, Oxton, Cheshire. 



Mr. John Thomas Wilde, 76, Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Messrs. R. H. Bentley, L. B. Brown, W. D. Brown. W. H. Edwards. 



Resignations. 

 Rev, Addison Crofton, M.A. , Mr. G. F. Tregelles. 



Papers Read. 

 '•^ Tapes geographicus awii T. pitUasira" by B. B. Woodward. 



Exhibits. 

 By Mr. J. C. Melvill : Bythoceras iridescens Moore, and Panxinelania damom, 

 from Lake Tanganyika. 



A large series of British and foreign Physit were exhibited by several members, 

 and the Manchester Museum collections of Physa: and Xenophorcc were also shew^n. 



297th Meeting, February 13th, 1901. 



Mr. Thomas Rogers in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



" Exotic Mollusca in California," by R. E. C. Stearns {from the author) ; and 

 tlie usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Donations to the Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Physa heterostropha from Guidebridge, near Manchester. 

 New Members Elected. 



Mr. Richard Herbert Bentley, 43, Gloucester Rd., Brownswood Park, London, N. 



Mr. Lewis Boyer Brown, P.O.Box 148, Bridgetown, Barbados. West Indies. 



Mr. W. D. Brown, Woodlands, Parbold, near Southport. * 



Mr. W. H. Edwards, Curator, Hastings Museum, Victoria Institute, Worcester. 

 Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Messrs. H. Beeston ; W. O. Dyson ; J. A. Rooth ; and Rev. A. H. Cooke. 

 Papers Read. 



" Dates of Publication of Forbes and Hanley's 'History of British Mollusca,'" 

 Ijy B. B. Woodward. 



"The Marine Mollusca of the Isle of Man," by L. St. G. Byne and Alfred 

 Leicester. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. E. Collier : A number of sinistral and scalariform examples of Helix 

 neinoralis, from the sand dunes between Blackpool and St. Anne's. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Helix vcrniiculata MUll., with its "dart" and epiphragm; 

 found living in a bag of Barcelona nuts. 



By Mr. W. J. Edwards : A very beautiful variety of Oliva tesselata Lam. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Littorina rudis var. sulcata, from the Isle of Man ; Physa 

 heterostropha, from canal at Guidebridge ; living specimens of the new Paludes- 

 trina {P. taylori Smith) from Dukinfield ; and a fine series of North American, 

 Trinidad, and British Physu:. 



By Mr. R. Standen : A fine collection of Magilus antiqiius, and allied species, 

 recently presented to the Manchester Museum ; also the Museum series of British 

 Littorinidse. 



