PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



270th Meeting, April 13th, 1898. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



The Nautilus, vol. 11, no. n ; Dates of Publication of the papers constituting 

 vol. 19 of the Proceedings of the United States National Museum ; Abstract of 

 Proceedings, Royal Society of New South Wales, Nov., Dec, 1897 ; The Pro- 

 ceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, vol. 9, part 3 ; 

 Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, part 21 ; The Naturalist, no. 495 ; 

 La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, ser. 3, vol. 28, nos. 330 and 331 ; Science 

 Gossip, n. s. , vol. 4, nos. 44 — 47, 1898 ; The Irish Naturalist, vol. 7, no. 4 ; The 

 Annals of Scottish Natural History, no. 28, 1898; Land and Freshwater Molluscaof 

 the District between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, by Fred. Taylor ; Catalogue 

 de la Bibliotheque des Jeunes Naturalistes, Fasc. 1 — 3, 1887. 

 New Members Elected. 



Mr. John Wishart, B.Sc, 25, Mount Street, Aberdeen 



Mr. Henry Woods, M.A., F.G.S., St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



Mr. B. R. Lucas. 



Resignations. 



Rev. E. G. Alderson ; Mr. B. Sturges Dodd ; Mr. J. Chadwick. 

 Papers Read. 



" Hyalinia cellaria in Walworth," by the Rev. J. W. Horsley. 



" Note on Cyprcea rashleighana," by J. Cosmo Melvill. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill : The type specimen of Cypnra rashleighana ; 

 also C. tabescens, Strombus mauritiana, S. luhuanus, and a new species of Strom- 

 bus 1 [S. belutchiensis] from Karachi. 



By Miss M. Lodder : A small series of rare Tasmanian marine shells, including 

 Ezilima nnieronata, E. anger, Stylifcr lodderce, Liotia lodderce, Trophon brazieri, 

 T. petterdi, Liotia angasi, Terebra brazieri, Mathilda australis, Clathurella 

 lallemantiana, Mangilia picta, and M. alucinans. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Helix horlensis, from Lincoln. 



By Mr. R. Standen : Strombus urceus from Ceylon, also a very fine and well 

 marked scalariform example of the same species (from thecollection of Mr. R. Welch). 



Mr. R. Welch sent for distribution a large number of Paludestrina jenkinsi, 

 collected by Mr. G. N. Milne, of Culinore, on the Foyle, co. Donegal. 



271st Meeting, May nth, 1898. 



Mr. Thomas Rogers in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



The Naturalist, no. 496 ; The Irish Naturalist, vol. 7, no. 5 ; The Nautilus, 

 vol. n, no. 12, vol. 12, no. 1 ; Science Gossip, vol. 4, no. 48; Journal de Con- 

 chyliologie, vol. 45, no. 3; ''Official Guide to County Down and the Mourne 

 Mountains," by R. Lloyd Praeger; "A classified Catalogue with localities of the 

 Land Shells of America north of Mexico," by Henry A. Pilsbry and Charles W. 

 Johnson ; "Om Bukkenfjordens Echinodermer og Mollusker," and " Skrabninger i 

 Vaagsfjorden og Ulvesund, ytre Nordfjord," by James A. Greig ; {from the authors). 

 New Member Elected. 



Mr. Bernard Richard Lucas, 3, Dyar Terrace, Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire. 

 1 Alan. Manchester Soc, vol. 42, no. 4, p. 37. 1898. 



