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various missing bands, Gretton, Northants ; series of H. nemoralis, showing varia- 

 tion in colour and fcrm, Kettering ; H. nemoralis var. alba, and var. nigrolabiata, 

 Woodford, Northants ; H. arbitstoriim var. canigonensis, Rush Ion, Northants. 



By Mr. R. Welch : H. ericetorum m. ■sinistrorsum, and var. alba, Bundoran ; H. 

 nemoralis m. sinistroi sum, and m. scalariforme, Bundoran, with others showing 

 malformed umbilicus due to injury in early growth ; also large series of Succinea 

 putris and S. elegans, S. Ireland. 



By the Rev. J. W. Horsley : Series of Helix nemaralis, showing varied band- 

 ing, and var. roseolabiata, N. Kent. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1898—99. 



This has been a singularly uneventful year in the history of the Conchological 

 Society, which has continued on the usual lines to carry out a programme of steady 

 and satisfactory work. 



It is just a year since the last Annual Meeting was held at Stafford and this re- 

 port therefore covers a period of twelve months and includes nine meetings. 



There has been a very satisfactory increase in the accession of new members and 

 we are glad to note that there have been twenty-two elections ; four resignations, 

 two deaths and two defaulting members give a clear gain of fourteen, so that the 

 Society now counts 254, as against 240 members. Of these 23 reside abroad, 10 

 are honorary, and 244 are ordinary members of the Society. 



The Council deeply regrets to have to record the death of Mr. Sylvanus Hanley, 

 of whose life an account, written by Mr. E. A. Smith, will appear in the January 

 number of the Journal. We have further to deplore the loss of Mr. L. F. Biddle, 

 who died very shortly after his election to the Society. 



The Council has pleasure in announcing that Mr. William Healey Dall, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Society in the place of Mons. Crosse, who died last year. 



The attendance at the monthly meetings in the Manchester Museum has been 

 good throughout the year, and in accordance with a resolution passed at the June 

 meeting the July and August meetings were omitted and the Society resumed work 

 on the 13th of September. 



There has been no falling off in the number of papers, notes and exhibits, of 

 which a list has already appeared in the reports of the Society's proceedings. 



Four numbers of the Journal have been published as usual during the current 

 year and these have contained 128 pages, one portrait and one plate. The portrait, 

 which accompanied the account of Mons. Crosse's life, was kindly presented to the 

 Society by his family, and at the June meeting a vote of thanks for this generous 

 gift was passed. The cost of the plate, which appeared in the last number of the 

 Journal, in illustration of Mr. E. A. Smith's paper on South African marine shells, 

 was partly defrayed by a contribution from Mr. J. H. Ponsonby, to whom the best 

 thanks of the Council were conveyed after the September meeting. 



Some valuable additions, both of British and foreign shells, have beenjnade to 

 the Society's collections. These have been arranged by the Curator, whi^ has also 

 identified a considerable number of specimens submitted to him by members. A 

 number of members and their friends have, from time to time, inspected and con- 

 sulted the Society's collection. 



The Library has been enriched by the usual exchanges with other Societies and 

 Journals and by gifts of books and pamphlets from members and others, which have 

 been duly acknowledged in the Proceedings. It has been well used by members, 

 and the catalogue has been kept up to date. 



