2o8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Meeting 



HELD JUNE 2ND, 1 887. 



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



NEW MEMBERS. 



Mr. G. W. Mellors, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham ; Mr. 

 J. R. B. Masefield, Rosehill, Cheadle ; Mr. J. M. B. Taylor, 

 Paisley ; and Mr. S. M. Luther, Garrettsville, Ohio ; were duly 

 elected members of the Society. 



Mrs. A. M. Dyer,of Swansea, was nominated for membership. 



The President announced that nominations for the different 

 offices of the Society for 1888 were now desired, namely, one 

 President, four Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, Recorder, 

 and six Members of Council. All nominations to be sent to 

 the Secretary in time for insertion in the October issue of the 

 ' Journal of Conchology.' 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were brought before the meeting : 

 " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales," 



vol. i., part 4. — By the Society. 

 " On the varieties of the shells belonging to the Genus Nassa 



Lam.," by F. P. Marrat. — Presented by Mr. B. Hudson. 

 The following shells collected at Llwngwrl, near Barmouth : — 



Helix caperaia, H. rotundata, H. hispida, Zonites cellanus, 



Pupa iifnbilicata, Arion ater, A. Bourguignati, and Lhnax 



maximus. — By Mr. Wm. Cash, F.G.S. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



The number of exhibits brought before the meeting was 

 very large, and included from Mr. L. E. Adams fine example 

 of Arion ater var. albolateralis, collected at Minsterly, Shrop- 

 shire, and other species from the same locality ; from Dr. R. 

 Scharff several specimens of Liniax cinereo-niger, collected at 

 Derrygore, co. Tyrone, by Mr. W. F. de V. Kane ; examples of 

 Planorbis lineatus, Valvata cristata, &c., from near Welshpool, 

 Montgomeryshire, collectedby Mr. J. B. Morgan; from Merioneth- 



J.C, v., July, 1887. 



