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This, cuupled with the fact that tiiey are usually alive, whilst those in 

 the currants are invariably dead, leads me to suppose that they have a 

 partiality for trees and possibly rest on the sultana vines, whence they 

 are pulled off and packed with the fruit, instead of being gathered up 

 off the ground like the foregoing species. One specimen shows the 

 epiphragm just as it was when picked out of the sultana box. I 

 obtained about one dozen specimens altogether, mostly of the 

 tessellated variety which Adams names radiata in his account of H. 

 virgata, and all, without exception, constant in having a dark nucleus. 

 The shell is much more pyramidal in shape than //. virgata and the 

 base is flatter. 



Physa acuta, which has • made itself at home under similar 

 circumstances at Kew, was found inside one of the houses in the 

 Dublin Botanic Gardens. It is almost impossible to say defmitel) 

 what part of the globe these specimens may have come from, as the 

 tanks are stocked with lilies from so many different places. I think 

 it most likely, however, that this one came with the Victoria Regia 

 lily from Brazil, but as Mr. McArdle informs me that these plants 

 have been a long tiirie in cultivation it seems strange that the shell 

 has never been noticed before. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



306th Meeting, January 8th, 1902. 



Mv. J. Cosmo Melvill in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



The usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership 

 Mr. Walter J. Hall; Mr. J. T. Wadsworth. 

 Resignation. 

 Mr. W. j. Jones, Jr. 



Member Deceased. 

 Lieut. -Col. C. E. Beddome, on September 1st, 189S. 



Papers Read. 

 " Some varieties of Cyprsea," by Mrs. Kenyon. 

 " Buckinghamshire Mollusca : New Records," by Alfred Leicester. 



Exhibits. 

 By Mr. F. F. Laidlaw : New species of Opisthostoma and Raphaulus from 

 Malay Peninsula. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : IJydrolna sidni v. Mts. , from Denmark, for comparison with 

 Paludestrina taylori Sm. 



By Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill : On behalf of Mrs. A. Kenyon, a large number of 

 Cyprcea, including the species mentioned in her paper, and many other forms of more 

 or less interest. 



By Mr, W, Moss : A collection of land and freshwater shells from Barbados, 

 collected by Mr. L. B. Brown, and including twenty-one out of the thirty-one 

 species as yet recorded for the island, and some small species not yet identified. 



