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The five members of the Society whose decease we announce with great regret 

 are David Robertson, LL.D. , the veteran naturalist of Cumbrae, of whom a brief 

 memoir has already appeared in the Journal, the gifted Lancashire authoress, 

 Mrs. G. Linnasus Banks, the Rev. C Crawshaw, Mr. F. Hepburn, and the Rev. 

 William Turner, of whose career a brief account will be found elsewhere (see p. 16). 



The average attendance at the meetings has been quite equal to the usual 

 standard and the exhibits provided by members have by no means decreased in 

 number or fallen off in interest and variety. 



At the meeting of the Society on March ioth, 1897, the Council resolved that 

 during the vacation meetings be omitted. On the 14th April it was further resolved 

 that the hour of 6-30 having proved inconvenient for members' attendance, the 

 meetings should henceforth open at 7 o'clock. 



A large number of papers have been read in the course of the year, most of 

 which have already been published in the Journal. The following is a list of these 

 communications : — 



Rev. J. W. Horsley : " The Mollusca of Plumstead Marshes." 

 R. Standen and J. R. Hardy : " Notes on the land shells of Ballycastle district, 



co. Antrim, Ireland. 

 G. W. Chaster : " Notes on some shells dredged off Rathlin Island and Ballycastle, 



co. Antrim, Ireland." 

 W. E. Hoyle : " Obituary notice of the late David Robertson, LL.D." 

 J. T. Marshall : " The Marine shells of Scilly." 

 E. Collier : " Shells collected at Corbeyrier, S. Aigle, Rhone Valley, Switzerland, 



in September, 1896." 

 G. W. Chaster : "Note on Scintilla eddystonia Marshall." 



C. E. Wright : "Note on a colony of Ccecilioides acicula Mull, in Northamptonshire. " 

 W, Moss : " Preliminary note on the genitalia of Hyalinia {Zonitoides), nitida 



Mull, and Hyalinia excavata Bean. 

 J. C. Melvill and R. Standen: "Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, 



Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of 



Species" (parts ii. and iii. ). 

 J. Yate Johnson : " Description of Helix tvatsoni, a new species of land shell 



discovered at Madeira, by Senhor J. M. Moniz. " 

 C. H. Morris : " Helix aspersa m. sinistrorum at Lewes." 

 E. A. Smith : "A List of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Trinidad." 

 J. T. Marshall : " Additions to British Conchology (Part ii.)." 

 C. E. Wright : " New form of Helix terrestris Penn. " 



J. C. Melvill and R. Standen : " The Marine Mollusca of Madras and the imme- 

 diate Neighbourhood." 

 Rev. J. W. Horsley : " Note on some French shell names." 



Five numbers of the Journal have been published since the last meeting, con- 

 taining 218 pages, illustrated by three plates and numerous woodcuts. The current 

 number of the Journal concludes the eighth volume, the first issued under the manage- 

 ment of the Society, which is now complete excepting the title page and index now 

 in the press. It contains 480 pages, 9 plates, and 9 illustrations in the text, a some- 

 what larger amount of letterpress and a much larger number of figures than any 

 previous volume. It is satisfactory to report that the Editor has always had in hand 

 a supply of interesting material awaiting publication ; indeed the pressure has been 

 so great that the Council has resolved upon a slight increase in the size of the 

 printed page, in order to afford more space for the communications of the members, 



