JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 49 



EXHIBITION OF SHELLS AT MANCHESTER. 



Upon the occasion of the opening of the New Rooms at 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society, 36, George Street, 

 Manchester, December 7th, 1885, the Microscopical and 

 Natural History Section of that Society arranged that the 

 Members and Associates should bring for exhibition certain 

 objects of interest from their private collections, and the result 

 was a great success. Mr. R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S., and Mr. J. 

 Cosmo Melvill, F.L.S., were the chief contributors of moUusca 

 for exhibition, as follows : — 



By Mr. R. D. Darbishire — 



A series of Fusus antiqinis, forms reversed (contrarius), 

 and dextral, from the Coralline and Red Crags of Suffolk, re- 

 markable for size and variety of facies, with recent ones of the 

 now normal dextral form, and of what is now the reversed 

 monstrosity, including a series from the egg-capsules and young, 

 up to the large adults of the great white form of the Irish Sea. 

 A series of form contraritis from the Drift at Woiden by Ley- 

 land, was exhibited from Miss Fairington's cabinet. 



Also other British species of Fusus, young and mature. 



Also, for comparison, a series oi F. despectus from Iceland, 

 F. islandicus from Iceland and Newfoundland Banks, and 

 F. perversiis from Vigo. 



A case of Magi his antiquus in and removed from masses 

 of Meandrina Coral from Mauritius, and large series of young 

 shells of Magilus, and of Leptoconchus of various species 

 (forms). 



Two drawers with series of Land and Freshwater Shells 

 from Ceylon, illustrating peculiar forms and variations. 



One drawer of Land and Freshwater Shells from Buda- 

 Pesth, collected by M. Julius Hazay, exhibiting range of varia- 

 tion in Succinea and Lininceiis, the enormous size of certain 

 forms of LimncBus and Flajiorbis, and series of the East Euro- 

 pean Mela/lice and Lithoglyphus. 



