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Letter Read. 



From Mr. Leopold Layard : — 



" Budleigh-Salterton, 



" Devon. 

 24th January, igoo. 

 " Dear Sir, 



" Will you please give my best thanks to the Conchological Society for 

 its very kind sympathy with me on the death of my father. He had begun 

 collecting shells when a small child in Florence, to the discomfort of his nurse 

 and the anger of his parents, who said that no gentleman did such things. 

 He was exchanging specimens a week before he died. 



" Yours sincerely, 



"Leopold Layard." 

 The Secretary, Conchological Society. 



Paper Read. 



" The land and freshwater shells of Tenby," by A. G. Stubbs. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J. Bliss : Specimens of a new species of Clausilia from Konia (the 

 ancient Iconium), Asia Minor ; they had been submitted to Dr. Boetlger. who had 

 recently described them under the name Clausilia (Oligoplychia) blissi. They are 

 closely related to Clausilia fattsta Pfr., but much larger, having sixteen whorls as 

 against twelve, and measuring 25 to 26*5 mm. as against 19 mm. 



By Mr. W. Moss : Specimens of Diplomorpha layardi and D. delautouri from 

 the New Hebrides. 



By Mr. B. R. Lucas : A series of land and freshwater shells chiefly collected in 

 Ireland ; amongst them was a form of Succinea from Roughty Bridge, which is 

 possibly a new variety of i*. oblonga. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Ancylus patelloides from California, an old species recently 

 re-discovered ; and A. snbrotundatus from Oregon, that has often been mistaken 

 for it. 



By Mr. J. W. Baldwin : A peculiar form of ' Limncea paluslris from Blackpool. 



288th Meeting, March 14th, 1900. 



Mr- J. Cosmo Melvill in the chair. 



New Members Elected. 



Mr. f. II. Killingbeck, Garth, near Llangollen. 



Mr. Joseph Moorcock, 119, Arngask Koad, Catford, London, S. E. 



Mr. Charles Pannell, Jr., East Street, Haslemere. 



Mr. C. P. Richards, Mission House, Stenalees, St. Austell, Cornwall. 



Mr. E. H. Solly, 3, South Street, Deal, Kent. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 

 International Catalogue of scientific literature, Queensland volume ; Report on 

 the mollusca of the " Tackson-Harmsworth" Expedition, etc., by J. C. Melvill and 

 R. Standen ; Hints on cleaning the smaller transparent species of British land 

 mollusca, by A. G. Stubbs; Some mollusca and the microscope, by W. M. Webb; 

 and the usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Donations to the Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 

 Buliininus {Chondrula) tricuspidatus (Kiister), from Mr. J. Bliss 



