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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



357th Meeting, December 12th, 1906. 



Mr. Edward Collier in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and Uianks voted : 



Zoological Record, Brachiopoda, by E. R. Sykes and E. A. Smith ; Molkisca, 

 by E. R. Sykes and E. A. Smith ; MoUusca of " Porcupine " Expedition, 1869-70, 

 by E. R. Sykes ; " On dates of Publication of Sowerby's Mineral Conchology," 

 etc., by E. R. Sykes {from the respective authors) ; and the usual periodicals 

 received in exchange. 



Donations to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 



/aininta cylindracea var. albina from Grange-over-Sands, by J. W. Baldwin ; 

 /aminia anglica and Vertigo antiverligo from Dog's Bay, Roundstone, Connemara, 

 by Edward Collier ; Vertigo angicstior (taken living) from Dog's Bay, Connemara, 

 by R. Standen. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Joshua L. Bailey, jr., Ilaverford, Pa., U.S.A. 



A. Bavay, 82, rue Lauriston, xvi® , Paris. 



Evenor Dupont, Mauritius. 



C. Dayton Gwyer, 303, Putnam x\venue, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. 



Rev. C. E. Y. Kendall, 48, West Road, Lancaster. 



Hermann Rolle, Koniggratzes Str, 89, Berlin, S.W. 



Maxwell Smith, 417, West 120th Street, New York, U.S.A. 

 Papers Read. 



" Note on Paludestrina coiifiisa from Oulton Broad," by Edgar A. Smith, 

 LS.O. 



" Vivipai-a contecta m. sinistyorsnm," by R. Standen. 



" Helix cantiana Montagu at Tooting Common," by J. Davy Dean. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson : Paludestrina {Pseudamnicola) anatina Drap. from 

 Oulton Broad, Suffolk; P. {Hydrobia) similis {— confnsa) from Erith, Kent, 

 illustrating Mr. E. A. Smith's note. 



By Mr. W Whitehead: Acroloxus laciistris L. var. lontpressa ](t^., very fine 

 clean specimens from Littlemoss, near Droylesden. 



By Mr. F. Taylor : Siucinca elegans from Birkdale, Southport. 



By Mr. C. II. Moore : Helix pisana of unusual size, collected at Tenby, July, 

 1904. 



By Mr. R. Standen: A collection of Non-Marine MoUusca from N.E. Rhodesia, 

 made by Mr. S. A. Neave in 1904-5, and now in the Manchester INIuseum. 



By Mr. J. Ray Hardy : Vitrea lucida, a fine set of unusually large specimens 

 from "Gatley Dip," near Northenden. He had found the shell in great abundance 

 underneath an immense pile of rotten timber in the rear of some greenhouses, and 

 as he happened to Ije present when this timber was removed, he obtained over two 

 hundred fully mature specimens. 



358th Meeting, January 9th, 1907. 



Mr. Edward Collier (vice-president) in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted: 



"Molluscan Shells collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon in 1902," by R. 

 Standen and A. Leicester; "Non-Marine MoUusca of Lincolnshire," by C. S. 

 Carter; "Illustrated Catalogue of the MoUusca of Michigan," by Bryant Walker; 



