268 JOURNAL OK CONCHOLOGY, VOL. 9, NO. 9, JANUARY, I9OO. 



Donation to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 



By A. G. Stubbs : A series of land shells from Thanet, Kent. 



New Member Elected. 



Mr. Joseph W. Baldwin, Darwen Road, Dunscar, near Bolton. 



Resignation. 



Mr. F. W. Wotton. 



Papers Read. 



" Pisidium milium in Somerset," by Chas. Oldham. 



" Palmiest rina jenkinsi at Droylesden, Lancashire," by F. Taylor. 



"Note on the appearance of Helix virgata in Herefordshire," by W. Blake. 



" Helix virgata in Staffordshire," by J. R. B. Masefield. 



" Buckinghamshire Mollusca," by J. R. B. Masefield. 



" Clausilia biplicata (Mont.)," by R. Standen. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. A. G. Stubbs : Land shells from Mentone, and Thanet, Kent. 



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



By Mr. R. Welch : Succinea oblonga var. arenaria from Enniskillen, Ireland. 



285th Meeting-, December 13th, 1899. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 

 Description of Comes (Cylinder) clytospira, sp. nov , from the Arabian Sea, by 

 J. C. Melvill and R. Standen ; the Terrestrial Mollusca of Michigan, by Bryant 

 Walker ; a Monograph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles 

 (part 5), by John W. Taylor ; and the usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Resignation. 



R. Wigglesworth. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Dr. G. II. Broadbent ; Mr. Hugh Watson ; Mr. Walter F. Webb. 



Member Deceased. 

 Sir Rawson VV. Rawson, K.C.M.G., C. B. 



Papers Read. 



" Sir Rawson W. Rawson, K.C.M.G., C.B.," by J. Cosmo Melvill. 



"■Helix marmorata var. alba," by K. Hurlstone Jones. 



" A Revision of the Textile Cones, with description of C. cholmonde'eyi, n.sp.," 

 by J. Cosmo Melvill. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Ariophanta labalensis de Morgan, from Perak. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : A series of Vertigo substriata, showing stages of growth, 

 from Ashton-under-Lyne. 



By Mr. J. C. Melvill, Mr. R. D. Darbishire, Mr. J. R. Hardy, and the Man- 

 chester Museum, a large number of Textile Cones, including the new species 

 described in Mr. Melvill's paper. 



By Mr. R. D. Darbishire : A bait for catching cuttlefish, composed of pieces of 

 cowry shells. 



By Mr. R. Welch : A series of Sttceinea oblonga var. arenaria from continental 

 localities, and a series of the variety figured by Jeffreys (B.C., vol. 1, p. 155), from 

 the Waller Collection. 



