PROCEEDINGS : MAY 5, I9OO. 343 



Further Donations to the Fund for clearing off adverse balance announced 

 and thanks voted : 



R. Bullen Newton ... 



Bartlet Span 



Thos. Edwards ... ... ■■• 



Bryant Walker 



A. Hann 



J. Linton 



G. F. Tregelles 



Jas. J. Macandrew... 



Mrs. L. A. Smith (second donation) 



J. Farquhar... 



D. D. Baldwin 



T. Hey 



A. Hartley 



Total £630 



New Member Elected. 



Miss M. V. Lebour, Radcliffe House, Corbridge-on-Tyne. 



Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



Miss Jessie Reeve. 



Annual Meeting. 



It was announced that the Annual Meeting would be held at the Manchester 

 Museum, Owens College, on October 27th, 1900, and that there would be no 

 meetings in July and August. 



Papers Read. 



' ' Lovell Reeve : a brief sketch of his life and career, with a fragment of an 

 Autobiography, excerpts from his Diary (1849), and Correspondence," by J. Cosmo 

 Melvill. 



" On the forms of Lacuna puteolns (Turton)," by L. St. George Byne. 



After the President had suitably expressed the acknowledgments of the meeting 

 to Mr. Melvill for his hospitable reception, an adjournment was made for tea, and 

 thereafter for the inspection of the cabinets containing Mr. Melvill's collection. 



Helix virgata in Staffordshire.— A specimen of this species was reported to 

 me as having been found in Staffordshire as long ago as 1889, but on examination it 

 proved to be a very young H. itala. Since then I have been on the constant look- 

 out for H. virgata in our county and it has at last been reported to me as found at 

 Wren's Nest, near Dudley, in 1894, by Messrs. A. Wood and H. Overton, of 

 Sutton Coldfield. At my request Mr. Wood has recently visited the locality again 

 and forwarded to me a number of living specimens. These I submitted to Mr. T. 

 Rogers, the Referee of our Society, and he reports that he does not consider them 

 ' to be quite typical, I, therefore, take the opportunity of exhibiting the shells for the 

 examination of members. Some of them appear to me to be of a small typical 

 form. Mr. Wood is of opinion that this colony of H. virgata has been introduced, 

 as it only covers an area of about 20 square yards and the species is not found else- 

 where in the vicinity. May I take this opportunity of asking conchologists to 

 kindly supply me with any notes on Staffordshire mollusca or any references to the 

 Bibliography of the subject, as I am now engaged in revising our county list. — 

 John R. B. Masefield, Rosehill, Cheadle, Staffordshire, 20th October, 1899 

 {Read before the Society, Nov. 8th, 1899). 



