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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



272nd Meeting-, June 8th, 1898. 



Mr. Thos. Rogers in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 

 La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, ser. 3, vol. 28, no. 332 ; The Naturalist, 

 no. 497 ; Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, vol. 11, nos. 1 — 4; 

 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society, Session 1896 — 97 ; Actes de la Societe 

 Scientifique du Chili, vol. 4, no 1, 1894 ; Memoirs and Proceedings of the Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. 42, part 2, 1898 ; Irish Naturalist, 

 vol. 7, no. 6 ; Marine Shells from the Andaman Islands, by J. C. Melvill and 

 E. R. Sykes ; Further Investigations into the Molluscan Fauna of the Arabian Sea, 

 Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman, with descriptions of forty species, by J. C. 

 Melvill ; County and Vice-County Divisions of the British Isles (for biological 

 purposes), by A. Somerville {from the Authors). 



Donation to the Cabinet announced and thanks voted. 



A scalariform specimen of Valvata cristata from Barnes from Mr. J. E. Cooper. 



Summer Meetings. 



It was arranged to discontinue the ordinary meetings during the months of 

 July, August and September and instead thereof to hold a number of half-day 

 excursions, the first to take place on June 18th. 



Annual Meeting. 



The Annual Meeting will be held at Stafford on a Saturday in October and will 

 take the place of the ordinary meeting for that month. Full particulars will be 

 announced in the October number of the Journal. 



Candidate Proposed for Membership. 

 Mr. A. VV. Rymer Roberts. 



Report on the Excursion on May 22. 



The excursion arranged by the kindness of the President was held on Saturday, 

 May 22. Some half-dozen members met at Froghall Station, a few of whom had 

 spent the previous night at Cheadle, and had greatly enjoyed the opportunity of a 

 walk round Mr. Masefield's grounds and the sight of the nesting-boxes, in which a 

 considerable number of the birds that frequent his garden have been induced to 

 take up their quarters. 



In a pond near Froghall were collected : — 



Limncea peregra Mull. , \ L. glabra Mull., 



L. stagnalis L. , L. glabra var. decollata. 



By the courtesy of Mr. Frazer the party was conveyed by the quarry tramway 

 from Froghall to the top of Caldon Low, where the serious business of the excur- 

 sion began by a vigorous search under the loose stones lying beside the approaches. 

 Here were obtained : — 



Arion circumscriptus Johnst. , 



Umax marginatus Mull., 



Agriolimax agrestis L. , 



Hyalinia crystallina Mull., 



H. cdlaria Mull., 



H. cellaria var. albina, 



H. pura Aid. , 



Helix rohmdata Mull., 



H. concinna Jeffr., 



H. rupestris Drap., 



H. nemoralis L. {rubella 00300), 



//. hispida L. , 



H. pulchella Mull., 



H. pulchella var. costata, 



Cochlicopa lubrica Mull., 



Carychium minimum Mull. 



