30 JOURN.\L OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. I^, NO. I, JANUARY, I9I3. 



As it might be of interest to mention a few of the more important works in the 

 " Boog Watson " Library, a short list is given below. 

 Poli : Testacea Utriiisque Siciliae, etc., 3 vols. 

 Sowerby : Thesaurus Conchyliorum, 5 vols. 

 Palaeontographical Society, 60 vols. 



Lamarck : IJistoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres, 2nd Ed., 11 vols. 

 Ueshayes : Description des Coquilles Fossiles des Environs de Paris, 3 vols. 

 Rellardi and Sacco : I Molluschi del Terreni Terziari del Piemonte, etc., 30 pts. 

 Kiener : Species General et Iconographie des Coquilles vivantes, 12 vols. 

 Hoernes : Die Fossilen Mollusken des Tertiser-Beckens von Wien, etc., 2 vols. 

 Delessert : Recueil de Coquilles decrites par Lamarck, etc., et non encore 

 figurees, i folio. 



RECORDER'S REPORT. 



The Recorder reports that a considerable number of records has been made and 

 authenticated during the year, and some of them published and to be published in 

 \\\& Journal of Conchology. 



Statistics are not now given, inasmuch as the Recorder is making a careful com- 

 parison of the Census and the Record Books, with the view of ensuring that every 

 entry in the Census is represented by a corresponding detailed entry in the books. 

 It will be some time before this task can be completed and the Census made ready 

 for publication. 



The Recorder has also devoted a considerable amount of attention to the work 

 entrusted to him by the Council of the Society, of investigating and reporting upon 

 the exact boundaries of the vice-counties where counties have been divided for the 

 purpose of recording distribution. The work is now in active progress, and it is 

 hoped to have a final report submitted before very long. 



The Recorder feels justified in recommending that a sub-division of five vice- 

 counties be made, viz : that, in accordance with a suggestion made by Mr. J. R. le 

 B. Tomlin, the Scilly Isles be separated from Cornwall West, they being sufficiently 

 remote from the mainland to render a separate record interesting ; also that Donegal 

 be divided into East and West, Kerry into North and South, East Galway into North 

 and South, and North Cork into North-east and North-west, in accordance with the 

 practice of the Irish workers. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LEEDS BRANCH 



For the Year ending 30TH Sept., 1912. 



Eleven meetings have been held during the year ; the August meeting being 

 cancelled owing to it clashing with holidays. 



Five meetings have been held in the field, at the following places : — Heck- 

 mondwike, in April and May ; these two meetings were devoted to a thorough 

 investigation of the habitat of a peculiar inflated form of Linniaa pereger. It is 

 hoped by a series of observations to obtain all the possible information as to the 

 vegetation, microscopic and otherwise, analysis and temperature of the water at 

 various times, a microscopic examination of the zoological life present, etc., in an 

 endeavour to find some satisfactory solution to the many morphological phases in 

 the shell of this species. These experiments are to be continued in the future. 

 The other meetings were held at Tanfield in June, York in Jul)', and Grange-over- 

 Sands in September. The September meeting was the sixth annual joint ramble 

 with the members from Manchester, and was a most successful event. 



