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Msits paid lo the Kelviiigiove Museum ai Glasgow and ihe Royal Scottish 

 Museum at Edinburgh have resulted in numerous records being submitted lo the 

 authenticators from the collections made by Mr. Alfred Brown, Mr. David Robert- 

 son, and Mr. Richard Rimmer. In former years the collections in the Museum at 

 Manchester, in Essex, at Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Perth, etc., have contributed to 

 the records, and your Recorder would be pleased if the authorities of museums 

 whose contents have not yet been seen would lend assistance of a similar character. 



There is still a considerable number of blanks in the Census to be filled up, 

 more particularly in Ireland and Scotland, and the active assistance of conchologists 

 is desired, particularly with regard to the slugs, which it is necessary should be 

 seen alive. 



The new records submitted are published from time to time in the yi7/^;7/a/ ^ 

 Conchology. 



The report on the division of vice-counties is in draft, and available for publica- 

 tion at any time the Society may deem tit. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LEEDS BRANCH 



For the Vkar ended 30TH September, 1913. 



Twelve meetings have been held during the year, five in the field and seven 

 indoor. The field meetings were held at Selby in April ; Kirby Stephen, in con- 

 nection with the visit of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union to this district in May ; 

 Burnsall, Wharfedale, in June, this being also a Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 meeting ; Shadwell and Wike, near Leeds, in July ; and the September meeting 

 was the seventh annual joint ramble with the members of the Manchester centre, 

 and though not so well attended as the past meetings, was equally successful 

 otherwise. 



Of the seven indoor meetings three were held in the Leeds University and three 

 in the Bradford Cartwright Mall. Special exhibits of British species were dis- 

 played ; and Mr. J. W. Taylor has continued his remarks on the life-history, habits, 

 and distribution of each exhibit in turn. Mr. Taylor's contributions to the know- 

 ledge of these species have been highly appreciated, an excellent testimony to this 

 being the high attendance at our indoor meetings. Special exhibits do not bar 

 other exhibits, of which there have been fine displays at some of the meetings. 



The seventh indoor meeting was held in the University, Manchester, last April, 

 by invitation from members of the Manchester centre. 



Two papers were given — one on the " Eggs of Mollusca,"' by Mr. R. Standen ; 

 and one entitled " Notes and Observations on Sphceriuvi palliduiii in the Parish of 

 Halifax," by Mr. J. E. Crowther. 



The meetings of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union are officially attended, and 

 records of species kept in our minute-book. 



Though we do not expect to add any new species to our present list, we are 

 continually extending the range of species already known, the result of our rambles, 

 and by individual effort. 



The membership at the present time is twenty-four, with two corresponding 

 members. 



Mr. F. Rhodes, Bradford, is our President. 



F. Booth. Hon. Sec, 



