6o journal of con'chology, vol. ii, no. 2, april, i904. 



Papenstrasse 79, 



Hamburg, 



//, Januar, jgo^. 

 Herrn W>l E. Hoyle 

 Secretar der Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Hochgeehrter Herr ! 



Unter den vielen Ehrungen imd Anerkennungsbeweisen, die mir 

 gelegentlich der Vollendung meines siebzigsten Lebensjahres dargebracht 

 sind, hat mir die llberaus freundliche und mich ehrende Begriissung der 

 Conchological Society eine besondere Freude gemacht. Ich bitte sie hoch- 

 verehrter und lieber Herr Hoyle der Gesellschaft dafiir meinen aufrichtigen 

 und herzlichen Dank ubermitteln zu NvoUen. 



Ihr sehr ergebener, 



Dr. Hermann Strebel 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND 



327th Meeting, January 13th, 1904. 



Mr. Alfred Leicester in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



Papers on Italian Mollusca by Dr. Raftaele Bellini {from the author), and the 

 usual periodicals received in exchange. 



New Members Elected. 

 Fred Booth, 43, Victoria Road, Sallaire, Yorks. 

 Henr}- ^Yilliam Parritt, 8, "Whitehall Park, Upper Holloway, London, N. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Thos H. Piatt, 73, Clarendon Road, Manley Park, IManchester. 

 R. E. J. Stone, Asliffe, 78, Woodstock Road, Oxford. 



Resignation. 

 \V. D. Brown. 



Member Deceased. 

 W. D. Crick. 



The Hermann Strebel Celebration. 

 It was reported that notice had Ijeen received of the inleniion of various scientific 

 associations to celebrate the seventieth birthday of the distinguished traveller, 

 Hermann Strebel, of Hamburg, on Januarj- 1st, 1904, and that a letter of congratu- 

 lation, signed by the President and Secretaiy, had been sent in the name of the 

 Society. Dr. Sirebel's reply was read to the meeting, and it was announced that 

 the letter and reply would be published in \.\\e Joiinial. 



Papers Read. 

 '•Landshells of Majorca,"' and "Fish and Paliidestrina jtukinsi,'^ hy iht'Rtw 

 Canon Horsley. 



"Note on Petricola pholadiforinis,^' by Hugh Watson. 



^^ Dreissensia polyiiioipha: Its Characters and Life History,"' by R. Standen. 



Exhibits. 

 By Mr. C. Oldham : Ainalia gagates var. rava, Dundalk, Co. Louth — on behalf 

 of Mr. P. H. Grierson; and Hyaliiiia iiicida, from near Plymouth — on behalf of 

 Mr. L. E. Adams. 



Many characteristic series of Dreisscnsia polymorpha from British and foreign 

 localities were shown by Messrs. R. Standen and J. W. Jackson, together with 

 many sets of local interest from the Manchester Museum, and from the Society's 

 collections to illustrate Mr. Standen's paper. 



