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countries. No less than 15,517 out of the whole total of 17,041 

 records are for England and Wales, while there are but 948 for 

 Scotland and Ireland, and only 576 for foreign countries. 

 Looked at in another aspect, it will be found that for the 72 

 counties of England and Wales the average number of species 

 (not records) seen is over 40 each, while for the 77 Scotch and 

 Irish counties it scarcely reaches 1 2 each. 



Of English counties there only remains one (North Wilts) 

 from which no records whatever have been made, and only one 

 Welsh county (Cardigan), while there are no less than fourteen 

 counties in each of the sister kingdoms for which this has to be 

 said. The fourteen Scottish counties are : — Wigton, Peebles, 

 Selkirk, Kincardine, North Aberdeen, South Aberdeen, Elgin, 

 Easterness, Westerness, Cantire, West Ross, East Ross, and the 

 Orkneys. The fourteen Irish counties are : — Monaghan, 

 Fermanagh, Cavan, Louth, Carlow, Kilkenny, Queen's County, 

 Longford, Leitrim, East Mayo, East Galway, Limerick, and 

 North Tipperary. 



The recorders and referees of the Conchological Society 

 are anxious that these blanks in their knowledge of distribution 

 should be filled up, and would feel much gratified if Scottish 

 and Irish Naturalists would assist them in the same generous 

 and liberal manner that the English and Welsh Naturalists have 

 been doing for the past few years. 



Meeting 



HELD FEBRUARY 4TH, 1 886. 



The President, Mr. W. D. Roebuck, F.L.S., presiding. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were announced : — 

 " The Proceedings of the Linnean Society," New South 



Wales, vol. x., pt. i. — The Society. 

 " On Land and Freshwater MoUusca of Dorsetshire," by 



J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, F.L.S., F.G.S.— The Author. 



J.C, v., April, 1SS6. 



