145 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



302nd (Annual) Meeting-, September 13th, 1901. 



Held in the Philosophical Society's Rooms, 207, Bath Street, Glasgow. 

 ^Tr. Alexander Somerville. President, in the Chair. 

 Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 

 The usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Appointment of Scrutineers. 

 Messrs. H. Coates and W. H. Heathcote were appointed Scrutineers. 



Appointment of Auditors. 

 jMessrs. C. Oldham and E. C. Stump were appointed Auditors. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Miss E. M. Norton, Dr. Jas. C. Cox, Mr. A. R. Ensor. 



Resignation. 



Miss Jessie Reeve. 



Annual Report and Balance Sheet. 



The Annual Report of the Council (see p. 146) and the Treasurer's Report in- 

 cluding an Interim Balance Sheet and Financial Statement for the current year 

 up-to-date (see p. 147) were presented and adopted. 



Reports of Committees. 



The Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a List of British Marine 

 Mollusca was presented and read and it was resolved : — 



That the List of British Marine Mollusca drawn up by the Committee be 

 accepted and published by the authority of the Society, and that its members be 

 recommended to adopt it in their conchological work. 



The Committee for Collective Investigation stated that they had not yet received 

 sufficient information on which to base a formal report. They were reappointed for 

 another year. 



Death of Mr. Thomas Rogers. 



It was resolved : That the Conchological Society desires to express its regret at 

 hearing of the decease of Mr. Thomas Rogers, one of its Vice-Presidents, and to 

 place on record its sense of the services rendered by him to the science of concho- 

 logy at large, and to the Society in particular, as well as to offer its heartfelt 

 sympathy to Mrs. Rogers and her family in their bereavement. 

 The Fred. P. Pullar Memorial Prizes. 



The Secretary reported that he had received a letter from the Secretary of the 

 Marine Biological Association of the West of Scotland, announcing the offer by Sir 

 John Murray, K.C. B., of three prizes in memory of the late Fred. P. Pullar. 



The prizes are of the value of ;i^5o each, and the subjects of investigation pro- 

 posed are : 



1. The Seasonal Distribution and Development of Pelagic Algte in the Waters 



of the Clyde Sea Area. 



2. The Reproduction, Development, and Distribution in the Clyde Sea Area of 



the Genera Nyctiphanes and Boreophausia. 



3. The Formation and Distribution of Glauconite in the Deposits of the Clyde 



Sea Area and the adjacent seas of Scotland. 

 Further particulars may be had from Mr. John A. Todd, 1 90, West George 

 Street, Glasgow. 



Election of Office-Bearers. 

 The Scrutineers reported that thirty-eight valid papers had been received, and 

 that thirty-five had voted for the list as proposed by the Council. The Officers and 

 Council in the list given on p. 130 were therefore declared to be duly elected. 



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