PROCEEDINGS : NOV. 13, 1897. I9 



New Members Elected. 



Mr. Owen G. Evan Thomas, Gnoll, Neath, Glamorganshire. 



Mr. Herbert Bolton, F.R.S.E.,94, Dickenson Road, Rusholme, Manchester. 



Dr. C. C. Claremont, Millbrook House, Hampstead Road, London. 



Mr. John Farquhar, 3, Rose Terr., African Str., Grahamstown, Cape Colony. 



Mr. Eugene John Tulk Hart, M.D., Durh., M.R.C.S., 4, Gloucester Place, 

 Brighton. 



Mr. William Lewis May, F.R.S. Tasmania, Forest Hill, Sandford, Tasmania. 



M. Philippe Dautzenberg, 213, Rue de 1' Universite, Paris. 



Mr. C. E. Beddome, Hillgrove, near Plobart, Tasmania. 



Rev. G. W. Taylor, F.R.S. Canada, F.Z.S-, F.E.S., Gabriola Island, Nanaimo, 

 British Columbia. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Miss Maria Glover, Dr. John Bingham Fitzsimons. 



Resignation of Members. 

 Mrs. B. J. Falloon, Mr. P. J. Rufford. 



Place of Meeting. 



On the invitation of the newly-elected President, Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, it 

 was resolved that the next Annual Meeting be held at Stafford in the month of 

 October. 



The Presidential Address 



was then delivered by the retiring President, Prof. S. J. Hickson, who- took for his 

 subject " Torsion in the Mollusca" (see p. 9). 



A vote of thanks to the President for his services during the year and for his 

 address was proposed by Mr. Masefield, seconded by Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, and 

 carried unanimously. 



The meeting then adjourned to view the exhibits which had been displayed in 

 another room. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. R. D. Darbishire : Two series of shells illustrating sinistration, namely : 

 A fine suite of the formerly normal Fiisus contrariits from the Coralline Crag at 

 Orford and the Red Crag atWoodbridge, and of the now so-called reversed monstrosity 

 of Fusus antiquus from the mouth of the Thames ; also some of Mr. McAndrews' 

 original specimens of F. contrariits Linn, (also Weinkauff) from Vigo Bay. In Pul- 

 monifera : a good series of Helix pomatia, showing both the helical and sinistral 

 varieties, and similar series of H. nemoralis and H. pisana. Two large specimens 

 of Pholas costata received by Mr. Sowerby from the S. W. Coast of Florida. 



By Dr. G. W. Chaster : Certain of the rarer and more interesting minutiora 

 from British and other seas, including recent additions to the British fauna, 

 Neolepton obliquatum Mtros., Adeorbis unisulcatus Ch., newly-described Pyrami- 

 dellidse from the Azores ; and rare Mediterranean Pyramidellidae, Caecidae, etc. 



By Dr. R. F. Scharff : Helix nemoralis (form major), Aran Islands, co. Galway; 

 H. nemoralis (form minor), Derrynane, co. Kerry ; H. fusca, Devil's Glen, co. 

 Wicklow ; H hortensis (form minor), Ems, Germany ; H. arbustorum var. 

 alpicola, Miirren, Switzerland ; Succinea virescens Mor. , Castletown-Berehaven, 

 co. Cork; Balea perversa var. lucifuga, Castletown-Berehaven, co. Cork; Planorbis 

 corneus, Monastereven, co. Meath ; Neritina fluviatilis, Lough Derryvaragh, 

 co. Westmeath. 



By Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill : A new species of Miilleria, described Nov. 12th, 

 1897, by Mr. E. A. Smith, collected by Mr. Daly in fresh water ghauts, Mysore, 

 India (the only other species, M. lobata, is South American) ; also 36 species of 



