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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



273rd (Annual) Meeting-, October 22nd, 1898. 



The President, Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, in the chair. 

 Appointment of Scrutineers. 



Messrs. Williams and Madison were appointed Scrutineers. 



Appointment of Auditors. 



Messrs. Moss and Cairns were appointed Auditors for the year 1898. 



Annual Reports and Balance Sheet. 



The Annual Report of the Council (see p. 147), the Reports of the London and 

 Leeds Branches (see p. 148, 149), and the Treasurer's Balance Sheet (see p. 149) 

 for 1897 were presented and adopted. 



Election of Office-Bearers. 



The Scrutineers reported that thirty-six voting-papers had been sent in, of which 

 thirty-four voted for the list of officers as nominated by the Council. The list was 

 therefore declared carried as on p. 139. 



Vote of Condolence. 



It was unanimously resolved that the Secretary be instructed to convey to the 

 relatives of the late Mons. H. Crosse an expression of the Society's sympathy in 

 their bereavement and of regret for the loss which the Society and conchological 

 science have sustained. 



New Honorary Member Elected. 



Mr. William Healey Dall, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, having 

 been nominated by the Council, was unanimously elected an Honorary Member, in 

 the room of the late Mons. Hippolyte Crosse. 



New Member Elected. 



Mr. Arthur William Rymer Roberts, Annesdale, Windermere. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Mr. H. Rowland Wakefield ; Mr. Leonard F. Biddle ; Mr. E. Hartley Turner. 



Resignation of Members. 

 Miss Alice Maud Dale ; Mr. G. E. Hadow. 



Member Deceased. 

 Mr. T. F. Burrows. 



Place of Meeting 1 . 



On the invitation of the newly-elected President, Mr. Lionel E. Adams, it was 

 unanimously resolved that the next annual meeting be held at Stafford. 



The Presidential Address 

 Was then delivered by the retiring President, Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, who took for 

 his subject "The Economic Use of some British Mollusca " (see p. 153). 



A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was proposed by Mr. J. Cosmo 

 Melvill and seconded by Mr, Wells Bladen (the Secretary of the North Staffordshire 

 Field Club), and carried unanimously, after which the Meeting adjourned. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J. R. B. Masefield : Helix po7natia from Gloucestershire ; and sinistral 

 specimens from France. H aspersa, showing gradation of colouring from var. exal- 

 bida to var. nigrescens, also sinistral and scalariform monstrosities. Series of typical, 

 varietal, and sinistral H. nemoralis from Donegal, Ireland. Sections of Helix, Plan- 

 orbis, Clausilia, Paludina, etc. Dreissensia poly7norpha, from Colwich, Staffs. ; 

 Anodonta cygnea, with shell pierced by rooks to feed upon the animal ; Unio pic- 



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