200 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



PROCEEDINGS of the CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT ON THE RECORDS MADE TO DEC. 9TH, 1 886. 



During the twelve months just expiring as many as 3,137 records 

 have been authenticated and registered, bringing up the number 

 for nine years to no less a total than 20,178, equivalent to an 

 average of 2,242 records for each year of the nine. The numbers 

 show a large diminution from those registered in 1885, being 

 less than half the figure (3,137 as against 7,069). This diminution 

 is partly to be accounted for by the fact that now for the first 

 time the statistics given are inclusive only of the records actually 

 registered in the final books, and do not include the records in 

 the preliminary stages of registration. Former statistics have 

 always been complete and included all the records to date, but 

 in future they will include only such as have reached the final 

 stage of registration and can be summarised with the least ex- 

 penditure of time. 



The counties for which more than a century of records have 

 been made during the year are 7 in number, as follows ; — Mid- 

 West York, 604; South-West York, 353; West Norfolk, 190; 

 North Lincoln, 133; North-East York, 131; Worcester, 128; 

 and Warwick, 117. 



Last year 30 counties were mentioned from which specimens 

 had never been seen. These have been reduced to 20 in number 

 at the present date, specimens having been submitted from 

 North Wilts., Peebles, Selkirk, Kincardine, South Aberdeen, 

 Easterness, Westerness, Dumbarton, Cantire, and West Ross. 



The 20 virgin counties are now 14 Irish, 5 Scottish and i 

 Welsh, while not a single English county remains which can in 

 this sense be regarded as quite a terra incognita. The Welsh 

 county is Cardigan, the Scottish ones are Wigton, North Aber- 

 deen, Elgin, East Ross, and Orkney, while the 14 Irish ones 

 are, as last year ; Monaghan, Fermanagh, Cavan, Louth, Carlow, 

 Kilkenny, Queen's County, Longford, Leitrim, East Mayo, 

 East Galway, Limerick, and North Tipperary. 



J.C, v., July, 1887. 



