28 lOURNAI, OF CONCttOI^OGY, VOL. 14, NO. I, JANUARY, IQI^. 



the conditions of membership. Nine new members have joined the Society, so that 

 the list now stands at 340, this being a gain of one on the previous highest record. 

 The members whose loss by death the Society deeply laments are Mrs. Fisher, 

 Mrs. Powell, Miss Lodder, Robert Cairns, J. W. Baldwin, and the Rev. Robert 

 Ashington Bullen. Obituary notices of the last three have appeared in the Tourval 

 of Conchology, and in all cases the Council has sent letters of condolence to the 

 relatives of the deceased. The loss of such men as Robert Cairns and J. W. 

 Baldwin, is all :he more deeply deplored, because each had taken such a personal 

 interest and active part in the affairs of the Society. To Miss Lodder's industry 

 and intelligent collecting the list of the Tasmanian Marine Mollusca owes much of 

 its completeness, a fact recognised in the founding of a new genus Lodderia, by 

 Prof. Ralph Tate in 1899, for some species formerly placed under Liotia. 



The usual meetings have been held, and the attendances have been well 

 maintained. Some thirty-one papers and notes have been read before the Society 

 for publication in the Jotirnal at the Editor's discretion. At the meetings there 

 have been the fo-llowing special exhibits: — The genus Eucalodiuin and its allies, 

 Japanese Land Shells, varieties and locality sets of Hygromia riifescens, Coch- 

 lostyla — sections Chlorcea and Corasia, Japanese and Chinese Clausilia, Scandina- 

 vian Land Shells. 



One of the most noteworthy exhibits of the year has been that of the Marine 

 Mollusca obtained by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904 

 (S.Y. "Scotia"), examined and reported on by Dr. J. Cosmo Melvill and Mr. 

 Robert Standen ; the Brachiopoda obtained by the same Expedition being 

 examined and described by Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson. Their papers appear in the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1912. Many very interesting 

 Antarctic records are made for species previously known from other localities, and 

 some twenty species, new to science, are described and figured. Valuable 

 information as to the distribution of Mollusca has been obtained through the 

 examination of these Antarctic collections. 



From the Gulf of Guinea four new species of Marginella have been described 

 by Messrs. Tomlin and Shackleford, the types being exhibited at the May and 

 September meetings. 



The February meeting was held at the Leeds University, at the invitation of 

 the Leeds Conchological Club, an interesting address, illustrated by drawings, 

 being given by Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.L.S., on the Life-history and Habits of 

 Hygromia ritfescens. 



A field meeting was held at Grange-over-Sands, many members from Lancashire 

 and Yorkshire attending. 



The lournal of Conchology has been issued quarterly, the thirteenth volume 

 being completed with the October number. Many valuable articles and notes have 

 been published, but the Council would again urge members to contribute more 

 frequently the results of their researches and study, and especially to communicate 

 any short notes of observations on the life-history, habits, and malacological 

 characters of Mollusca. 



The Honorary Recorder presents his own report, but the Council desires to 

 emphasize the necessity that all new records should be communicated to him as 

 early as possible, that the census, when published, may be an exhaustive one. 



During the year a number of specimens has been added to the Society's 

 collections by various members, including some of special interest, and a number 

 of " Voucher " specimens have also been received through the Hon. Recorder. 



