264 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. 9, NO. 9, JANUARY, I90O. 



Place of Meeting. 



Invitations were received from the newly-elected President, Mr. E. R. Sykes, 

 to hold the next annual meeting in London; and from Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, on 

 behalf of the committee of the Manchester Museum, to hold it in Manchester. It 

 was resolved that the matter be remitted to the Council for decision. 



The Presidential Address 



Entitled: "Observations on some Rare British Land and Freshwater Mollusca," 

 was read by Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, in the absence of the retiring President, Mr. 

 Lionel E. Adams. 



On the motion of Mr. E. R. Sykes, seconded by Mr. C. E. Wright, a vote was 

 unanimously passed expressing the Society's regret at the absence of the President, 

 and its sympathy with him in the illness of his brother, as well as its best thanks 

 for his services in the presidential chair during the past year and for his address. 



Exhibits : 

 By Mr. J. R. B. Masefield : [A), series of Helix pisana, H. nemoralis var. 

 castanea, Planorbis cornens, and Dreissensia polymorpha, shewing growth stages of 

 the shell ; (B), Helix virgata, type and a curious variety, from Wren's Nest, 

 Dudley, Staffordshire (first record for the county), collected by Mr. A. Wood, 

 1899; (C), Bulimits (Opeas) goodalli Mill., original specimens from pine beds at 

 Bristol (Leckenby collection) ; {D), Cyclostoma elegans, Clausilia laminata, Helix 

 cantiana, H. ericetorum, and H. virgata, from near Aylesbury, Bucks., collected 

 by Mr. W. G. Stephenson, 1899. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Palmiest rina jcnkinsi Smith, from Droylesden, Lanes. 

 By Mr. W. C. Blake : Helix virgata var. lutescens, from Ross, Herts, (first 

 county record), and a very perfect scalarifonn Helix aspersa from the same locality. 



By Mr. W. Wells Bladen : Dreissensia polymorpha, with very fine attached 

 pearl, from Rugeley ; and series of Helix aspersa from Eccleshall, Staffs. 



By Mr. J. M. Williams : Some remarkable forms of Cypnea tesselata, C. pan- 

 therina, C. vi/ellus, C. picta, C. ziczac, C. caput-serpentis, C. ventriculus, C. 

 arabica, C. pulchella, and C. gaskoini var. peasi. 



By Mr. E. D. Bostock : Series of Helix aspersa from Eccleshall. 

 By Mr. Ed. Collier : Helix nemoralis, principally from Valencia Island, Ireland, 

 including var. albolabiata with a very broad black single band (00300) ; also a large 

 number of land and freshwater shells, including Vertigo, Pupa, Acme, Carychium, &c. 

 By Mr. R. Standen : A number of shell dress ornaments; strings of " shell- 

 money " (JVassa and Cypnza), and specimens of Ampliiperas bored for wearing ; 

 armlets cut from large Trochus ; shell necklaces, &c, collected by Professor 

 Haddon during his recent expedition to Torres Straits. 



By Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill : A fine example of the rare Mitra fergusoni Sow., 

 of which only one other specimen (the type) is known. 



By Mr. J. Linton : A selection of the less common species of Perebra, Nassa, 

 Clausilia, and other genera. 



By Mr. A. G. Stubbs : A collection of the land shells of Mentone. 

 By Mr. E. R. Sykes : Cyclophorus eximius Mouss. from Java, and C. dodrans 

 Mab. from Tonkin — the two largest land Operculates known, the former measuring 

 over seventy mm. across, and a specimen of Streptaxis candidits Spix thirty-nine 

 mm. in diameter, from Brazil. 



By Mr. C. E. Wright : Helix ei icetorum var. alba, Blisworth and Stony Stratford ; 

 H. ericetorum m. scalariforme, and vars. leucozona and minor, Middleton, Northants ; 

 Limnaa auricitlaria, showing extra lip growth, Newton, Northants; Helix hortensis 



