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The Recorder reports that during the past year 219 new comital records have 

 ^een registered. The majority of these are for Ireland, where Mr. P. H. Grierson 

 has again done excellent work in extending the known range of many species. The 

 Recorder has to thank Messrs. L. E. Adams, H. Beeston, J. E. Cooper, E. W. Swan- 

 ton, J. W. Vaughan, C. E. Wright, and the Rev. W. A. Shaw, among others, for 

 specimens from various English and Welsh localities. No fresh Scottish records have 

 been established. A reference to the last-published Census {Jou7-nal of Conchology, 

 vol. 10, pp. 217-237) will shew that the distribution of even some of the more 

 common species is imperfectly known in Scotland, and it is hoped that members 

 who have opportunities for collecting in that part of the kingdom, or who already 

 have Scottish shells in their collections, will submit the specimens for registration. 

 From the Society's authenticated records it is now possible to define approximately 

 the distribution of certain species in England and Wales, although with regard to 

 even these many gaps require to be filled. It is surely only necessary to say that 

 the wider our accurate knowledge of the distribution of any one species becomes the 

 greater the value of the census as a whole, in order to enlist a wider interest in this 

 branch of the Society's work than has obtained in the past. 



The practice of holding Special Exhibits of particular genera at the monthly 

 meetings has been continued, and very interesting series of specimens of Helix 

 aspersa, H. nemoralis, and H. hortensis have been shewn. 



A compliment has been paid to the Society in the election of its Secretary to 

 serve on the Permanent Commission on Nomenclature of the International Zoo- 

 logical Congress, and the Council has thought it well to print in Vixe Journal the 

 recently-revised Rules on Nomenclature drawn up by the Congress, for the guidance 

 of those members who are concerned with this subject, which is exciting so much 

 interest and controversy at the present time. The Society has tried to take its 

 part in the practical work of the subject by issuing lists of the British molluscan 

 fauna ; it is believed that most of the names therein adopted will stand the test of 

 further enquiry, and the Council recommends the members of the Society to make 

 use of them in their publications. 



Communications have been made to the monthly meetings by twenty-eight 

 different members ; some of these are lengthy memoirs, others merely short notes. 

 The Council cannot help thinking that the number of contributions might be largely 

 increased if members would feel it an obligation to share with their colleagues 

 the pleasure of their captures and the benefit of any information they may acquire. 

 It is only by the spirit of mutual co-operation that a Society such as ours can main- 

 tain a vigorous and useful vitality. 



Statement of Income and Expenditure 

 From January ist to October 15th, 1905. 



