PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



264th Meeting-, October 13th, 1897. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



Armature of Helicoid Land-Shells, by G. K. Gude ; La Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes, nos. 322-324 ; The Naturalist, nos. 265-267 ; The Irish Naturalist, 

 vol. 6, nos. 8-10 ; Journal de Conchyliologie, vol. 45, no. 1 ; Journal of Mala- 

 cology, vol. 6, no. 2 ; Science Gossip, vol. 4, nos. 36-39 ; Transactions of the 

 Academy of Science of St. Louis, vol. 4, nos. 4-16 ; On the Genus Remondia 

 Gabb, by T. W. Stanton; Report of the Manchester Museum, 1896-97; Notes 

 from Manchester Museum, nos. 1-4; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 

 1110, mi, 1120; Bullettino della societa. malacologica Italiana, vol. 20; Smith- 

 sonian Report, U.S. National Museum, 1893 and 1894; Journal and Proceedings 

 of the Hamilton Association, no. 13, 1896-97; Records of the Australian Museum, 

 vol. 3, no. 2 ; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report, 1895, vol. 8 ; 

 Emleklapok, no. 29, Vandorgyulese Alkalmabol, by A. Pechany ; Journal and 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 30, 1896; Memoirs 

 and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. 41, 

 part 4 ; Transactions and Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, 

 vol. 2, part 5, 1896-97 ; Paludestrina jenkinsi Smith, by L. E. Adams ; Australian 

 Museum Report, 1896; Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca (Brit. Mus. ), part 1, 

 Australasia, by G. F. Harris ; Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda (Brit. Mus.), 

 part 3, by A. H. Foord and G. C. Crick. 



Donations to Cabinet announced and thanks voted. 



By Mr. A. G. Stubbs : A further instalment of choice specimens of land and 

 freshwater shells from Tenby. 



New Members Elected : 



Mrs. Agnes Fleming Kenyon, F.R.S. Tasmania, Ass. Mem. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 291, Highett Street, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria. 



Miss Mary Lodder, Lonah, Ulverstone, Tasmania. 



Mr. Henry Clifden Burnup, Pietermaritzburg, Natal. 



Mr. D. D. Baldwin, M.A., Haiku, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. 



Rev. Amos Kendig, D.D., 86, Vernon St., Brookline, Mass., U.S.A. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Messrs. Owen G. Evan-Thomas ; Herbert Bolton, F.R.S.E. ; John Farquhar ; 

 Eugene John Tulk-Hart ; Wm. Lewis May ; Philippe Dautzenberg ; Chas. Edw. 

 Beddome : Rev. Geo. W. Taylor ; Dr. C. C. Claremont. 



Member Deceased. 



Rev. W. Turner. 



Papers Read. 



' ' The Marine Mollusca of Madras and the immediate Neighbourhood, " by 

 J. Cosmo Melvill and R. Standen. 



"Note on some French Shell-Names," by Rev. J. W. Horsley. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. A. G. Stubbs: Series of land shells from the Tenby district, including 

 Helix pisana (type and five semi-scalariform specimens); H. virgata (eight mon- 

 strosities) ; H. itala and vars. lentiginosa, minor, alba, and leucozona ; and a 

 beautiful series of C. elegans var. fasciata and ochrohaca from underneath privet 

 bushes in the Jubilee Gardens, Tenby. 



