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After due consideration, it was deemed advisable that a 

 permanent system should be devised of dealing with those and 

 similar questions. 



Recommendations on the subject will be brought forward 

 at the present meeting. 



The number of shells that have been brought forward at 

 the Society's Meetings for Exhibition and Identification has 

 been very large, and has helped to considerably increase the 

 number of recorded varieties and localities. 



The chief drawback to the success of the Society during 

 the year is the comparatively small number of papers read, and 

 your Council would urge upon the members the desirability that 

 exists for an ample supply of original communications in the 

 future. 



Your Council would also be pleased if those members who 

 interest themselves in exotic and marine shells; and in Con- 

 chological Paleontology, would assist in keeping these depart- 

 ments of the science more prominently before the meetings, and 

 thus vindicate the claim of the Society to the representation of 

 the science in its widest acceptation. 



CONSTITUTION AND LIST OF MEMBERS 



OF THE 



CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN 



AND IRELAND. 



I.— That this Society be called the " Hhe CondtolfiQical 

 cSodetp of ^reat ^ntiiui aitb Jrelanb." 



2.— That its objects shall be the promotion of the Science of 

 Conchology, by the holding of meetings for the reading 

 and discussion of original papers, by the publication of 

 proceedings, and by the formation of a Library and 

 Collections illustrative of the Science. 



3. — That it shall consist of Ordinary and Honorary Members. 



