56 JOUkNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, \'OI.. 12, NO. 2, APRIt, I907. 



"A Molluscan Visit to some of the Inner Hebrides," by the Rev. G. A. Frank 

 Knight (^from the respective authors); and the usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Letter Read 

 From Mr. H. A. Pilsbry acknowledging his election as an Honorary Member. 

 The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



Logan Square, Dec. jth, igob. 

 Dr. W. E. Hoyle, 



Hon. Secretary of the Conchologkal Society oj Great Britain and Ireland. 

 Dear Sir: 



It is a great pleasure to me to hear that I have been elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Conchological Society. With some members I have enjoyed, 

 personally or by correspondence, a friendship of many years' standing, and a larger 

 number of members are well-known to me by their works. I keenly appreciate the 

 the honor of association with these friends and co-workers, and will endeavour to 

 advance, so far as I can, the aims and interests of the Society. 



Very truly yours, 



H. A. Pilsbky. 

 New Members Elected. 

 Joshua L. Baily, jr., Haverford, Pa., U.S.A. 

 A. Bavay, 82, rue Lauriston, xvic. Paris. 

 Evenor Dupont, Mauritius. 



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

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

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

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

 Candidates Proposed for Membership. 

 Walter Gyngall, 13, Gladstone Road, Scarborough. 

 Silas C. Wheal, 987, Sterling Place, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. 



Resignations. 

 J. G. Hamling ] W. R. Smith 



Lieut. -Col. G. S. Parry Wilfred Mark Webb 



Arthur S. Poore H. J. West 



Member Deceased. 

 William Baillie, Brora, near Golspie, Sutherlandshire. 



Papers Read. 

 " On the Mollusca of a raised coral reef on the Red Sea Coast," by W. J. Hall 

 and R. Standen. 



"On the discovery of Vitrea rogersi in England," by J. Wilfrid Jackson and 

 A. S. Kennard. 



" Shells collected in Arran," by F. H. Sykes. 



Exhibits. 

 By Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson: A series of Vitrea rogersi from various British 

 localities, including a large and distinctive form with wide umbilicus from Malham 

 Cove, which appears to agree with V. hehetica Blum., rather than V. rogersi, in its 

 general characteristics ; V. glabra Studer from Budapest ; and photograph of tablet 

 of V. rogersi (labelled ^'- Hyalinia alliaria var. glabra") in the Alder Collection in 

 the Hancock Museum, Newcastle. 



By Mr. A. W. Rymer Roberts: Vertigo alpestris rom the Common, and 

 St. Catherine's, Windermere, Westmorland. 



By Mr J. Ray Hardy : Planorbis crista, a pretty white variety, from near the 

 old mill at Reddish; and very large Acroloxiis lacitstris from a pond off the Ashton 

 Road, near Droylsden. 



