PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 20I 



The referees and recorder are much indebted to all the 

 Conchologists who have shown their appreciation of the value of 

 the authentication-system by sending specimens, and especially 

 to those by whose endeavours so much has lately been done for 

 the Scottish counties, for Norfolk and Lincoln, Worcestershire, 

 Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and for Devon and Cornwall, 

 and they trust that a paper on the distribution of Irish moUusca 

 which will be printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish 

 Academy, will prove effectual in eliciting a full measure of assis- 

 tance from the Naturalists of Ireland. 



Meeting 



HELD JANUARY lOTH, 1887. 



The President, Mr. J. W. Taylor in the chair. Several 

 letters from members were brought before the meeting. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected members of 

 the Society :— Mr. J. W. Williams, B.A,, D.Sc, Park Village 

 East, London ; Mr. W. Hy. Heathcote, Avenham Lane, 

 Preston ; Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A., F.Z.S., King's College, 

 Cambridge ; Mr. R. C. Chaytor, Middleham, Yorks. ; Rev. 

 Geo. Gordon, LL.D., Birnie, Elgin; Mr. Robert Renton, Fans 

 Road, Greenlaw, Berwickshire ; Mr. John Beaulah, Raven- 

 thorpe, near Brigg; Mr. Conrad Gerland, B.Sc, Ph.D., Church 

 Hall, Church, Lancashire ; Mr. Alexander Shaw, Dover Street, 

 Glasgow; Mr. H. Wallis Kew, F.E.S., Louth, Lincolnshire. 



The following were nominated for membership : — Rev. W. 

 C. Hey, M.A., York; Rev. J. E. Somerville, M.A., B.D., 

 Glasgow ; Lieut.-Col. G. S. Parry, London ; Messrs. A. Brown, 

 Glasgow ; A. H. S. Newstead, Epping ; T. W. Reader, London ; 

 and F. R. Fitzgerald, Harrogate. 



DONATION. 



The following donation was laid on the table, " Proceed 

 ings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh," session 

 1885-1886. 



