238 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. I4, NO. 8, OCTOBER, I9I4. 



434th Meeting-, held at the Museum, Manchester, Sept. 9th, 1914. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Additions to the Library announced and thanks voted : — 

 " Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the Valley of the Roe, Benevenagh, and 

 jNlagilligan, co. Derry," by A. W. Stelfox. " Manual of Conchology," part 88, 

 by ri. A. Pilsbry {fiovi the respective authors) ; and the usual periodicals received 

 in exchange. 



Donation to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : — 



By Prof. A. E. Boycott : A dextral specimen of Claitsilia bidentata, taken by 

 him at Portmadoc, North Wales, August, 1914. 



New Members Elected. 

 Dr. W. G. N. van der Sleen. 

 W. G. Mazyck. 

 Rev. John McMurtrie. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



John Noble Kennedy, R.N., H.M.S. " Antrim," c/o G.P.O., London (intro- 

 duced by J. R. le B. Tomlin and Kenneth H. Jones). 



Alfred John Saban, 318, Ivydale Road, Peckham Rye, S.E. (introduced by 

 Capt. W. J. Farrer and J. Ray Hardy). 



Death. 



A. J. Jukes Browne, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Papers Read. 



" Note on Bursa [T-utjifa) rubda (Bolten) = Triton lampas (Lam. et auct.)," 

 by Edgar A. Smith, I.S.O. 



" Notes on Fluviatile Mollusca from Port Patrick, Wigtownshire," by John N. 

 Kennedy, R.N. 



" Molluscan Rubber Pests," by G. C. Robson, B.A. 



" The Marine Alollusca of Sao Thome," I., by J. R. le B. Tomlin, M. A., and 

 Lewis J. Shackleford. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. G. C. Spence : Nine species of Formosan and Japanese Pupinella, and 

 Pupinella angasi Brazier, Louisiade Islands. 



By Mr. C. H. Moore : Helix hoitejisis, Hygroniia rtifescens, and other species 

 from Ilfracombe ; Helicigona lapicida, Hygroniia hispida, Clausilia bidentata, 

 Jaminia cylindracea, and Hyalinia alliaria, from Lynmouth ; and varieties of 

 Helicella virgata from Croyd Bay, North Devon. 



By Mrs. Gill : A drawer of Placostyhis, showing variation in form, and some 

 of the rarer species. 



By Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson : Elongate specimens oi Azecaixom. Clapham, Yorks. 

 (coll. J.W.J.)., and Barnoldswick, Yorks. (coll. H. Beeston), for comparison with 

 Azeca elongata described by Mr. J. W. Taylor in the "Naturalist," March, 1897, 



p. 75- 



It was decided to have the following Special Exhibits at future meetings : 

 October 14th - Planorbis spirorbis and P. vortex. 

 November nth - The Genus Alyccens. 

 December 9th - The Genus Ranella. 



