PROCEEDINGS : OCTOBER 2$, 1902. 275 



By Mr. E. Collier : Six drawers of exotic land operculates, 525 species, repre- 

 senting 42 genera, and including many of the rarest and most beautifid forms of this 

 attractive group. 



By Mr. W. Moss: Pleuiocloitte perplexa, Grenada; P. badia, Dominica ; P. orbi- 

 culata, St. Lucia — a large series of each showing range of variation ; Buliimis 

 oblongiis, with eggs and young, from Trinidad ; B. vincentinus, from Trinidad ; B. 

 biuominis and var. lascellesi, from Perak ; Helicina keatei, Grenada ; and Helix 

 isabella, from Barbados. 



By Dr. G. W. Chaster : Many locality sets of all the British Vertigines and 

 PupidDS, including Vertigo liljeborgi ; also Succinea oblonga from its various Irish 

 stations. 



By Mr. W. J. Hall : A set of paintings of marine shells on rice paper by native 

 Chinese artists. 



By Mr. T. Edwards : British Rissoie and Odostoinim ; Purpura lapillus, vars. ; 

 jar of Samian ware, covered with oysters, dredged off Thanet, Kent ; Buccinum 

 undatum, a remarkably fine series of sinistral, acuminate, and normal forms, shown 

 also in section, and sinistral and normal var. carinata ; malformed and sinistral 

 Neptwiea antiqua, all from Thanet coast. 



By Mr. J. R. Brockton Tomlin : Sinistral Helix ericetoruvi and H. nemoralis, 

 from Bundoran, also scalariform //. nemoralis from same locality ; H. pomatia and 

 H.aspersn, sinistral and scalariform, from the Crosse Collection ; " repaired " H. 

 aspersa and two shells grown together ; Vertigo liljeborgi from Ballynahinch, Co. 

 Galway ; V. heldi from Co. Antrim ; sinistral Tritonofusiis gracilis from Dogger 

 Bank. 



By Mr. J. T. Wadsworth : Living specimens of Helix fiisca and Hyalinia 

 draparnaldi ; Patella zmlgata and Helix aspersa killed by narcotisation with 

 cocaine, and preserved in formalin, the animals well expanded and colours natural. 



By Mr. F. F. Laidlaw : A fine set of Alycceiis, Piipina, Opisthostoma, and other 

 Operculates, including some recently-described species. 



By Mr. R. Standen : Shells and calcareous eggs of exotic land snails. Helix, 

 Bulimiis, Partnla, Glandina, etc. ; SphcEriiun pallidnvi from most of its known 

 stations in Great Britain and abroad ; examples of the Odontostominse of South 

 America ; Pedicularia sicula, P. californica, P. pacifica, P. elegantissima, and 

 P. rubida. 



By Mr. W. E. Hoyle : Photographs of Pleiirotomaria adansoniana and other 

 natural history specimens in colours, prepared by the Sanger Shepherd process. 



By the Manchester Museum : Twenty drawers containing a portion (about 2,000 

 species) of the " I^ayard Duplicate Collection"; the collections of Partitla, Buli- 

 mus, AmphidroviHS, etc. ; Barbula hetrulea, the largest known Anodon, from 

 Siberia ; Cardiuin Mans from Algiers ; Liinatia leivisi from California ; Rhodea 

 gigantea from Mexico ; and some fine types of Etisalodium and Anostoma, 



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ANNUAL REPORT, 1901-1902. 



Owing to the last Annual Meeting having been held in September, eleven meetings 

 have been held during the past year, from October 9th, 1901, to September loth, 

 1902, inclusive, at which the attendance has been satisfactory. 



Thirteen new members have joined the Society, and four have resigned ; two 

 have been reluctantly struck off by the Council for non-payment of their subscriptions, 

 and their names will be published in the /ournal according to the rules. 



There are at present on the roll ten honorary members, and 266 ordinary mem- 

 bers, of whom fourteen are life members. 



