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nearly equals the combined total of those for the eight preceding 

 years, and that they are nearly double the number of those 

 authenticated in 1884. During the eight years ending with 18S4 

 records were authenticated to the number of 10,051, being an 

 average of 1,256 per annum ; while during 1885 no less than 

 7,069 were placed on record, bringing the annual average up to 

 1,893. 



For this gratifying result your recorders and referees are 

 indebted to the zeal and kindness of numerous conchologists 

 and others throughout the British Isles — and the fact that 

 records have been made for no less than 107 counties, that is for 

 more than two-thirds of the whole number, is ample evidence of 

 the continued wide spread interest which conchologists generally 

 take in the authentication principle. 



Where so many have assisted to the best of their power it 

 would be somewhat invidious to mention names, but it may be 

 stated that the counties for which more than a hundred records 

 each have been made during the year are (in the order of the 

 number of records) : — Mid -West York, 632 ; Notts, 621 ; 

 Derbyshire, 298; North Hants., 276 ; South Lancashire, 232 ; 

 North-East York, 216; South Hants., 170; Durham, 163; 

 Leicester and Rutland, 158 ; Glamorgan, 148 ; South- West 

 York, 147 ; Stafford, 140 ; Cheshire, 138 ; Middlesex, 137 ; 

 Surrey, 135 ; Pembroke, 135 ; Shropshire, 132 ; North-West 

 Yorkshire, 132 ; West Kent, 128 ; East Gloucester, 118 ; West 

 Cornwall, 115; Forfar, 106; South-East York, 106; West 

 Gloucestershire, 102 ; Warwickshire, loi ; and East Kent, loi. 

 Continuing the details of the Yorkshire records for comparison 

 of the figures for previous years, it may be stated that 1,233 

 records have been made for the five divisions of that county, as 

 against 602 in 1884, 821 in 1883, 830 in 1882, and 200 in 1881, 

 and that the total number is now 4,792. 



An examination of the numbers of records again shows that 

 those for England and Wales immensely preponderate in 

 comparison with those for Scotland, Ireland, and foreign 



