2o6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting 



HELD APRIL 7TH, 1887. 



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



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following were duly nominated for membership : — 

 Mr. F. B. Webb, Cheadle, Staffordshire; and Miss Honoria 

 Galwey, Dublin. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were announced : — 

 Sowerby's " Illustrated Index of British Shells."— By Mr. G. B. 



Sowerby. 

 "Annual Report of the New Cross Natural History Society." — 



By Mr. A. J. Jenkins. 

 " Smithsonian Report," 1884, part ii. — By the Trustees, 

 " Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South 



Wales," vol. 19, 1885. 

 Specimens of Livmcea glabra, from Swillington Common. — By 



Mr. W. Nelson. 

 A small collection of shells found about Dublin. — By Dr. R. 



Scharff. 



The thanks of the Society were accorded the donors for 

 their generous gifts. 



PAPERS READ. 



" On the genus Cuma," by the Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A., F.Z.S. 

 " Conchological Notes on a visit to Fifeshire," by Mr. T. Scott. 

 "The Land Shells of Ilfracombe and Neighbourhood," by Mr. 



J. R. B. Tomlin. 

 " Note on Limncea Btirnetti,^^ by Mr. W. Nelson. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The following were shown by the President — On behalf of 

 Mr. S. C. Cockerell specimens of Pisidium rosemn and Vertigo 

 antivertigo from Minster, near Sandwich, Kent ; for Mr. Wilfrid 

 Bendall, a collection of Clausilise from the Tyrol, Bavarian 

 Alps, and Switzerland ; for Mr. F. W. Wotton, of Cardiff, a 



J.C, v., July, 1887. 



