150 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. 9, NO. 5, JANUARY, 1899, 



274th Meeting 1 , November 9th, 1898. 



Mr. Thomas Rogers in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



The Irish Naturalist, vol. 7, nos. 7-1 1 ; the Scottish Naturalist, nos. 27 and 28; 

 the Naturalist, 498-502 ; Science Gossip, vol. 5, nos. 49-54 ; Memoirs and Proceed- 

 ings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. 42, parts 3 and 4 ; 

 Annual Report Microscopical Society for 1897 ; La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, 

 ser. 3, nos. 333-337 ; Journal de Conchyliologie, vol. 45, no. 4, vol. 46, no. I ; 

 Transactions and Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural Sciences, vol. 2, 

 part 6 ; the Nautilus, vols. 3-10, and vol. 12, nos. 2-6 ; Abstract of Proceedings of 

 the Royal Society of New South Wales, May 4th, June 1st, and July 6th ; Journal 

 and Proceedings, vol. 31, 1897 ; Revista Museo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, vol. I ; 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 22, part I ; Bulletin of 

 the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, vol. 5, nos. 1-5, vol. 6, no. I ; Journal and 

 Proceedings of the Hamilton Association, no. 14 ; Report of the Trustees of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, for 1897 ; Report of the Keeper of the Manchester 

 Museum, for 1897-98 ; Armature of Helicoid Landshells, by G. K. Gude ; Deep- 

 water Mollusca of the Atlantic Coast, by A. E. Verrill and K. J. Bush ; Nomen- 

 clature of the Seams of the Lancashire Coal Measures, by H. Bolton ; List of the 

 Types and Figured Specimens of Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Nat. Hist. ), 

 by G. C. Crick ; Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the British Museum (Nat. 

 Hist. ), by J. W. Gregory ; Zoological Nomenclature, Remarks on the proposed 

 International Code, by Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing ; Irish Field Clubs Union : Ken- 

 mare Conference, Report on Mollusca, by R. Standen ; Australian Museum 

 Records, vol. 3, no. 4. 



Donations to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 



By Mr. J. Madison : Physa heterostropha Say, taken near Birmingham. 

 New Members Elected. 



Mr. Leonard F. Biddle, 21, Canning Street, Liverpool. 



Mr. E. Hartley Turner, 21, Bairstow Street, Preston. 



Mr. H. Rowland Wakefield, 7, Montpelier Terrace, Swansea. 

 Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



Mr. William Wells Bladen. 



Papers Read. 



"The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Somersetshire," by E. W. Swanton. 



" Pupa anglica Fer. var. alba nov.," by E. Collier. 



" Helices climbing in dry weather," by K. Hurlstone Jones. 



" Limncea peregra abandoning its shell," by K. Hurlstone Jones. 



" Discovery of a Physa new to Britain," by J. Madison. 



" Fust on the Norfolk Coast," by Carleton Greene. 



" Additional Note on Ccecilioides acicula," by J. W. Horsley. 



" Helix acuta monst. sinistrorsutn at Tenby," by Fred. Taylor. 



" Remarks on the cause of Abnormality in Planorbis spirorbis" by R. Standen. 



" Vertigo moulinsiana Dupuy in Cambridgeshire," by R. Standen. 



Exhibits. 



By Mrs. Janet Carphin : Helix nemoralis and varr. roseolabiata, albolabiata, 

 and bimarginata, Dollar and Eyemouth, var. rubella, Birnam ; H. hortensis var. 

 olivacea, Eyemouth ; H. hispida monst. sinistrorsum, Coldingham ; Pupa marg- 

 inata, Eyemouth ; Vertigo edentula, Birnam and Luss ; V. pygmcea, Birnam ; 

 Planorbis nautileus, Coldingham 



By Mr. R. Cairns : Helix virgata from sand dunes between Rossall and Black- 

 pool. This species was first noticed near Rossall School, about twelve years ago, 



