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I St. — That the following be substituted for Rule No. 4 : — Candi- 

 dates for Membership, after being proposed by two Mem- 

 bers of not less than twelve months' standing, from a 

 personal knowledge, at one meeting, shall be balloted for 

 at the next. They shall pay in advance on the ist of 

 January an Annual Subscription of not less than 5/-. 

 Foreign Members shall pay an Annual Subscription of not 

 less than 7/6. 



2nd. — That Rule No. 6 be omitted from the Constitution. 



3rd. — That the Curator and Recorder and Librarian be ex- 

 officio Members of the General Council. 



Meeting 



HELD SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1 888, AT THE MUSEUM, LEEDS. 



Mr. W. E. Collinge, presided. 



DONATION. 



The following donation was announced : — 



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

 vol. iii., part i. 



Correspondence from Members was laid on the table : — 



Under date August loth the Rev. Churchill Babington, D.D., 



F.R.S., wrote that on the previous day he had found Hydro- 



charis morsus-rance in flower in the river Stour, near Sudbury. 



Some of these plants were taken home and placed in water. 



When examined subsequently Dr. Babington observed "that 



several shells had detached themselves from the leaves, and 



among them was a specimen of Chiton cinereus (L.), the only 



species of this genus which has as yet been found in Suffolk." 



The Rev. Carleton Greene, who saw the shell while the animal 



was yet fresh, suggests that it may be worth considering whether 



this shell can have been introduced by a barge from the sea, as 



in his boyhood barges came up as far as Sudbury from the sea. 



Dr. Babington suggests " some of your correspondents may be 



able to throw some light upon this subject." 



PAPERS READ. 



"■Argiope decoUata, at Scilly," by Mr. J. T. Marshall. 



" On the position of dart sac in Helix rufescens^^ by Mr. W. E. 

 Collinge, 



