278 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. I4, NO. 9, JANUARY, I915. 



Paper Read. 



Obituary Notice : A. J. Jukes-Biowne, F.R.S., F.G.S., by J. Cosmo Melvill, 

 M.A.,D.Sc., F.L.S. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. G. C. Spence: Cyclophorus nilagti-ictis'Bcnso'n, from Khasia Hills, India. 



By Mr. C. H. Moore : Helicella virgata, type, and var. lutescens, and H. bar- 

 bara, from Llandudno, Oct. 27th, where it was extremely abundant, but small. 



By Prof. A. E. Boycott : A series of Pseudaiiodonta rothoiuagensis Locard, 

 from Bransford Bridge, River Teme, Worcestershire, collected by Mr. J. R. le B. 

 Tomlin, August, 1914. 



In the Special Exhibit of the genus Alycc^us rather more than two-thirds of the 

 known species were shown by Messrs. E. Collier, G. C. Spence, and R. Standen. 

 Mr. Collier gave an interesting description of the principal characteristics of this 

 curious genus and its distribution. Included in his series was a large number 

 acquired at the sale of the Buelow Collection. One example of A. physis Benson 

 from Darjeeling, India, shown by Mr. Standen, contained the operculum, which 

 was unknown when the shell was first described. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



The present is the thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Society. 



At the last Annual Meeting the membership stood at 350, but the year now 

 closed has been one of very regrettable loss, only partly compensated by the 

 enrolment of new members. 



During the year the Society has heard with much sorrow of the decease of four 

 members, viz.. Dr. Fitzsimons, Dr. Plant, Rev. Dr. McMurtrie, and Mr. A. J. 

 Jukes-Browne, F.R.S., F.G.S. Dr. McMurtrie was elected in 1886, and his re- 

 searches in Haddingtonshire and other Scottish counties have resulted in many 

 new records. Mr. Jukes-Browne was known by many as a most courteous and 

 obliging correspondent and a painstaking writer on the vexed nomenclature of the 

 mollusca. A biographical sketch by Dr. James Cosmo Melvill will shortly appear 

 in the Journal of Conchohgy. Letters expressive of the respectful sympathy of the 

 members of the Society have been forwarded to the friends of these gentlemen. 



The resignations of six members on the ground of want of time to pursue 

 conchological research have been regretfully accepted. The names of some thirty- 

 two other members have with much reluctance been struck off the roll in accord- 

 ance with Rule 4. In some of these cases, perhaps in the majority, the cause of 

 the lapse has been through getting out of touch with the Society, and a consequent 

 loss of interest, through neglect to notify change of address. This is the occasion 

 of quite unnecessary trouble and serious financial loss, and members are again 

 urged to forward any new address to the Secretary, and also, in the event of not 

 receiving the Journal, to notify him at once. 



Against these losses through death, resignation, and lapse of membership, 

 amounting to forty-five, seventeen new members have been elected during the 

 year, so that the membership at the present time is 322. 



The usual meetings have been held at the Museum, Manchester. Twenty-eight 

 papers and notes have been read, and the exhibits have been interesting and 

 numerous. As in former years, at most of the monthly meetings there has been a 

 special exhibit of some group— a method which is very useful in the determination 



