PROCEEDINGS: JUNE 9, I915. 30? 



443rd Meeting, held at the Museum, Manchester, June 9th, 1915. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Additions to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



"The Marine Mollusca of Sao Thome, II.," by J- I^- le B. Tonilin and L. J- 

 Shackleford. 



" Rediscovery of Pourtales' Haliotis" by J. B. Henderson {from the respective 

 authors'). 



" Catalogue of the Mollusca of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Moray, and 

 the neighbouring seas," by Robert Dawson. "Supplement to Dawson's 'Mol- 

 lusca of Aberdeen and the neighbouring seas,' " by James Simpson (presented by 

 [. Simpson) ; and the usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Donation to the Autograph Letter Collection : 



Henry Suter by L. J- Shackleford. 



New Member Elected. 



Miss Bertha M. Challis. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



T. van Hyning, Museum Curator, Florida State Museum, Gainesville, Fla., 

 U.S.A. (introduced by J. R. le B. Tomlin and L. J. Shackleford). 



C. P. Hurst, The Corner House, Great Bedwyn, Hungerford (introduced by 

 R. Standen and L. J- Shackleford). 



Member Deceased. 



Miss Lucinda Milner. 



Papers Read. 



"Mollusca and Brachiopoda of the Irish Atlantic slope between 50 and 1,000 

 fathoms," by Anne L. Massy. 



"Notes on Wiltshire Mollusca," by C. P. Hurst. 



"Tentacular abnormality in Helix nemoralis," by A. J. Arkell. 



"A new variety of Columbella misera Sow. from Japan,"' by J. R. le B. 

 Tomlin, M.A. 



"Description of a new Rissoina,'" by J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. E. Collier: A fine example of Atopocochlis exarata (Mailer), from S. 

 Thome. 



By Mr. G. C. Spence : Urocoptis {Arangia) scobinata Torre and Ramsden, a 

 beautiful new species recently described from La Paz, East Cuba. 



In the Special Exhibit of the genus Marginella Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson showed 

 a number of fossil species, and there was a fine display of about 300 of the recent 

 species, shown by Messrs. J. Kidson Taylor, C. H. Moore, Mrs. Gill, and Rev. 

 Lewis Shackleford. 



