Vol. 9]. 



APRIL, 1899. 



Published April 1, 1899. 



r No. 6. 



THE 



JOURNAL 



OF 



CONCHO LOGY. 



BEING THE ORGAN OF THE CONCUOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



Hon. Secretary and Editor 



W. E. HOYLE, M.A., 



The Owens College, 



Manchester. 



Hon. Treasurer : 

 E . D . BOSTOCK 

 Ttxall Lodge, 

 Stafford. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

 Presidential Address on The Economic Use of some British Mollusca 



(concluded)— J. R. B. Masefield, M.A. ... i6i 



Limnrea peregra abandoning its shell— K. H. Jones ... ... ... 164 



Additional Note on Gecilioides acicula — Rev. J. W. Horsley ... 164 



Additions to ' British Conchology' (continued) — J. T. Marshall ... 165 



The Corrosion of Shells in Cabinets — L. St. G. By.ne ... ... 172 



Prefatory Note — J. Cosmo Melvill .. ... 172 



Proceedings of the Society, January to March, 1899 ... ... ... 179 



Note on Scalaria fimbriolata Melv. — J.Cosmo Melvill ... ... 181 



Vertigo pusilla Midler in Lancashire and Westmorland — R. Standen 181 



Bibliography ... ... ... ... ... ... 182 



Herviera, a new genus of Pyramidellidse — J. Cosmo Melvill and 



R. Standen 185 



TheLandand Freshwater Mollusca of Somersetshire — E.YV. Swanton 187 



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BERLIN : Friedlaender & Sohn, Carlstrasse ii. 



