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tributions towards a Check-List of the Non-Marine Molluscan Fauna of South 

 Africa, with descriptions of Fourteen New Species, by J. C. Melvill and J. H. 

 Ponsonby. 



Donations to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 



By Dr. G.W. Chaster : Specimens of Limnaa stagnalis and L.peregra exhibited 

 in illustration of his paper. 



By Mr. A. G. Stubbs: A fine series of land shells from Mentone, including 

 Helix piscina var. alba, H. cespitum, Buliminus quadridens, Clausilia solida, Helix 

 elegans, Leucochroa candidissima var. , Rumina decollata, and Pupa cinerea. 

 New Members Elected. 



Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., D.L., Whatcombe, Dorset. 



Mr. W. Neville Sturt, India Office, Westminster, London, S.W. 



Mr. J. Williams- Vaughan, J. P., The Skreen, Erwood, R.S.O., Radnorshire. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Mr. Ernest Le Cronier Lancaster ; Mr. R. M. Lightfoot ; Mr. V. V. Ramanan. 



Papers Read. 

 " A cross between Limnaa stagnalis and L. auricularia" by G. W. Chaster. 

 " The Etymology of the names Azeca and Assiminea of Leach," by Rev. G. A. 

 Frank Knight. 



Statement of Accounts. 

 The Balance Sheet for the year 1898 was laid upon the table, and ordered to be 

 brought up for approval at the Annual Meeting. 



BALANCE SHEET, Dec. 31st, 1898. 

 Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. 



Balance from 1897 3 oni Cost of Journals, vol. viii. , no. 



Subscriptions received in 1898 49 3 o 13, and Jan., 1898 43 8 l£ 



Life Composition Fees 8 6 6 Stationery 214 1 



Donations 056 Cost of Reprints, Plates, etc. 9 10 7 



Stamps refunded by Inland Drawing Plate of Madras and 



Revenue Authorities ... 2 1 8 Falkland Mollusca 220 



Sale of Reprints, Lists, and 2nd Instal. of Purchase Money 



Back Nos. of Journals ... 17 16 1 of Q. J. of Conchology, to 



Advertisements 300 J. W. Taylor, Esq. ... 10 o o 



Rent of Room for Annual 



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(Signed). R. Cairns, \ Auditors. Treasurer's Expenses 3 13 1 1 



K. C. Sstump, i Secretary's and Editor's Exp's 9 18 o 



Balance 015 o 



£83.13. H £8313 8^ 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Limnaa palustris monst. decollata, from near Oldham ; 

 L. peregra var. labiosa, Littlemoss, Ashton-under-Lyne ; Bythinia tentaculata, a 

 peculiar elongate variety, from Droylesden ; Sitccinea putris, of large size, and var. 

 alba, Vertigo moulinsiana, V. pygmaa, V. anlive/iigo, Helix pygmaa, Limnaa 

 palustris var., Viviparus contectus, type and a small dark-purple variety, all from 

 Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire ; Vertigo andrusiana, Douglas County, Oregon, U.S.; 

 and Triodopsis tridentata var. alba, Hamilton, Ontario. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Clausilia biplicata var. alba, from Mortlake ; Stieptaxis and 

 Alycaus, from Hipoh, Perak. 



By Mr. Thomas Rogers : Mitree from Sandwich Islands. 



By Mr. R. Standen : Series of Eustreptaxis and Artemon, Manchester Museum. 



