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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



334th (Annual) Meeting, October ist, 1904. 

 Held at the Manchester Museuni. 

 Dr. R. F. ScharfF, M.R.I. A. (President) in the chair. 

 Donations to the Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 

 Specimens of Limax teneilus and white examples of Limax arboruiii, from Mr. 



W. Denison Roebuck, F. L. S. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



" Some Nudibranchs from East Africa and Zanzibar," parts 3 and 4, by Sir 



Charles Eliot {from the author), and the usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Appointment of Auditors. 



Messrs. J. Wilfrid Jackson and J. T. Wadsworth were appointed Auditors. 



Appointment of Scrutineers. 

 Messrs. R. Cairns and R. J. Welch were appointed Scrutineers. 



New Member Elected. 

 Sir Charles Eliot, K.C. M.G., Government House, Mombasa, East Africa. 



Resignations. 

 Miss E. P. F. Bury, Mr. J. H. Killingbeck, Mr. G. M. Morris. 



Member Deceased. 



Mr. J. G. Shillito. 



Annual Report and Balance Sheet. 



The Annual Report of the Council (see p. 154), and the Treasurer's Report, 

 including the Balance Sheet for 1903 (see p. 61), and the Interim Balance Sheet up 

 to September 22nd, 1904 (see p. 155), and the Recorder's Report (see p. 155), 

 were presented and adopted. 



Report of the Leeds Branch. 



The Report of the Leeds Branch from 1898- 1903 (see p. 156) was presented 

 and read. 



Election of Officers and Council. 



The Scrutineers reported that sixty-three valid papers had been received, and 

 that fifty-nine voted for the entire list as nominated by the Council. The Officers 

 and Council on the list (see p. 130) were therefore declared to be duly elected. 

 President's Address. 



Dr. R. F. ScHARFF then delivered his Valedictory Address (see p. 138) on 

 "The Origin of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles," 

 on the conclusion of which a cordial vote of thanks was tendered to him on the 

 motion of Mr. Charles Oldham, seconded by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. Edward Collier : A nearly complete series of Obba, Chloritis, and Plani- 

 spira, and a fine series of the smaller British land and freshwater shells, including 

 Succinea oblonga and Vertigo moulinsiana from Braunton Burrows, North Devon, 

 and Helicella caperata monst. sinistrorsniii from sandhills, Woolacombe Bay, North 

 Devon, collected in August last. 



By Mr. J. M. Williams : Very choice specimens of Oliva i/iediocincta, Cypraa 

 argus, a curious green variety, C. cruenta, with rich purple mouth, varieties of C. 

 caurica, and C. ptdchella var. pericalles M. and S. 



By Dr. K. H. Jones : New species of Liiinuea and Peeten collected at Shantung, 

 China. 



By Mr. Bartlet Span : A fine scalariform Natiea catena from Tenby, 



