PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 307 



Meeting 



HELD AT THE- MUSEUM, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1 888. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor presided. 



Correspondence was read from Messrs. R. D. Darbishire, 

 J. C. Melvill, A. Somerville, Wm. Jeffery, B. B. Woodward, 

 Alfred C. de Conti Gatto, and Mrs. Skilton. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations were laid on the table and the 

 thanks of the Society were accorded the donors : — 



A framed portrait of Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., painted in oils 

 and presented by Mrs. M. Skilton. 



" Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales," by the Society. 



" Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria," decade xv., by the 

 Government of Victoria. 



NEW MEMBERS. 



The following were nominated for membership : — 



E.R.Sykes, Weymouth, byJ.W.TaylorandW.D. Roebuck, F.L.S. 



Thos. F. Burrows, Cheadle, by J. W. Taylor and J. R. B. Masefield. 



Chas. Nathaniel Peal, F.R.M.S., Ealing, by A. Somerville, B.Sc, 

 F.L.S., and B. B. Woodward, F.G.S., F.R.M.S. 



[Mrs.] Julia Hodgson, Leighton Buzzard, by A. Somerville, B.Sc, 

 F.L.S., and Rev. R. B.Watson, B.A., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



Fredk. Rhodes, Eccleshill, near Bradford, by F. R. Fitzgerald, 

 F.S.Sc, and J. A. Hargreaves. 



PAPERS READ. 



" On the article ' Purpura ' in Tryon's Manual of Conchology," 

 by Rev. Alfred H. Cooke, M.A., F.Z.S. 



" A new locality for H. revelata," by Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A. 



" On the limits of the British Seas," by Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A. 



" Notice of a monstrosity of Bythinia tentaatlata,^^ by Edgar 

 A. Smith, F.Z.S. 



" On the occurrence of Testacella scutulum in Leicestershire," 

 by H. E. Quilter. 



" On a mite parasitic upon Testacella scutulum^'' by H. E. Quilter. 



" Additions to the Authenticated List of Mollusca for West 

 Sussex," by Wm. Jeffery. 



. " On Trophon truncatus (Strom.) var. scalaris Jeffr. on the West 

 of Scotland," by A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



