86 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. J. R. Redding, M.C.S., sent a collection of slugs from 

 County Dublin, including very characteristic specimens of the 

 variety bicolor of Arion ater, and numerous other species ; also 

 a specimen of Helix aspersa showing a deformity in one tentacle. 



A collection from Mr. Thos. Scott, M.C.S., included 

 examples of Limax Icbvis from Tarbert, Cantire ; also Pupa 

 ringens, Zonites radtatulus, Pisidmni pusillum, Balea perversa, &c. 



Specimens of Sphcerium corneurn and Physa fontinalis 

 from Stafford were shown on behalf of Mr. L. E. Adams, B.A., 

 M.C.S. 



Meeting 



HELD MAY 6tH, 1 886. 



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

 The minutes of the April meeting were confirmed. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following were duly elected members of the society : — 

 Chas. L. Smout ; J. Bickerton Morgan j Alfred E. Craven, 

 F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. ; B. Sturges Dodd ; Miss S. Hockin; 

 and Geo. Thos. Rope. 



The following gentlemen were nominated for membership : 

 Wm. E. Hoyle, B.A., F.R.S.E., Edinburgh; Thos. Wm. 

 Pocock, J. P., Staines ; John Ponsonby, Grosvenor Place, 

 London. 



HONORARY MEMBERS. 



M. J. R. Bourguignat and Prof E. von Martens were 

 elected Honorary Members. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were announced : — 

 " Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh," 



by the Society. 



Testacella haliotidea from Whetstone, Middlesex (see 'Field,' 

 1885, p. 607); Zonites glaber w2Lr. bicolor — new variety (not yet 

 described), from Bromley, West Kent ; thorn from stomach of 



J.C, v., July, 1886. 



