PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 1 39 



data var. minima from Kotlina Thai, Carpathians, C. laminata 

 var. Parreyssii Rossm., C. biplicata var. carpatica Tatra, Car- 

 pathians, and C. fallax Rossm., Sinnya, Roumania. — Pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Fitzgerald. 



Planorbis lineaius Cambridge, Limncea peregra from Island 

 of Herm, Helix arbustotum Gemnii Pass, Switzerland, and 

 Helix strigella from Menaggio, Lake Corno. — Presented 

 by Mr. Tomlin. 



The thanks of the society was accorded the donors for 

 their gifts. 



PAPER READ. 



" New Habitat for Odostoinia pallidal — by the Rev. R. W. J. 

 Smart. 

 The President then gave the Annual Presidential Address, 

 in which, taking the forthcoming Monograph of British Land 

 and Freshwater Mollusca, by Mr. Taylor and himself, he re- 

 viewed the present state of our knowledge of that department 

 of the British fauna, calling special attention to the deficiencies 

 which exist, and the urgent need of further investigation into 

 the anatomical and physiological structure, the embryology and 

 development, the hfe-history and habits of the various species. 

 The deficiencies in our knowledge of distribution and variation 

 were then dealt with, and the concluding portion of the address 

 dealt with the function and scope of the Conchological Society, 

 the catholicity of its aims, and the necessity which exists for a 

 more adequate and varied supply of communications to be read 

 at the meetings. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. W. Nelson showed examples of Zonites nitidus and 

 Helix rotundata from Headingley. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor exhibited on behalf of Rev. J. E. Somer- 

 ville, B.D., a collection of land and freshwater shells made by 

 him in the Islands of Tiree, S. Uist, Lewis, Benbecula, and 

 Barra ; and also a number of species recently found on the 



