no JOURNAL OF CONCHOI.OGY, VOL. 12, NO. 5, JANUARY, I908. 



Election of Officers and Council. 



The Scrutineers reported that thirty-six valid papers had been received, of which 

 thirty-three had voted for the entire list as nominated by the Council. It was then 

 reported that since the balloting list had been circulated, a letter had been received 

 from Mr. Charles Oldham, stating that owing to his removal to London it would 

 be impossible for him to accept the office of Recorder, and it was thereupon 

 resolved that Mr. Fred Taylor be elected to the office thus vacated, and the 

 Officers and Council given in the List on p. 98 were declared to be duly elected. 



A resolution expressing the thanks of the meeting to the retiring Secretary and 

 Recorder for their services to the Society was proposed and carried. 



Paper Read. 



"Obituary Notice of Alexander Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., late President of 

 the Conchological Society," by the Rev. G. A. Frank Knight. 



President's Address, 



Mr. W. E. Collinge then delivered an Address, entitled ; 



"Some Observations on Slugs and Slug-Like Mollusca." 

 A vote of thanks to the President for his Address and for his reception of the 

 Society in Birmingham was unanimously passed. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. R. Standen : Series of young forms of Anodonta cygnaa from the 

 Marple Canal ; Helix aspersa ni. scalarifor'iie from the Cove, Silverdale, Lanes. ; 

 Li>ini(?a sp. ? from Lough Nagarriva, Co. Kerry, Ireland (collected by Mr. A. W. 

 Stelfox). 



By Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson : Vertigo alpestris from Hazelslack, Westmorland ; 

 V. pit^illa from Beeiham Fell, Westmorland, and Warton, Lanes. ; V. pyginaa, 

 V. antivertigo (new record for vice-county 60) ; and Fitnctiiin pygmceum from 

 banks of the Keer, Carnforth ; Vertigo antivertigo and Punctum pygvtmim from 

 Hawes Water, Silverdale ; Jaminia secale, Vertigo pygmcea and V. antivertigo 

 (new record for vice-county 69) from near Meathop Fell, Westmorland ; exceed- 

 ingly fine examples of Succinea oblonga taken on the face of the cliffs at Meathop 

 Fell, twenty-five feet above the level of the road ; a curious small form oi Hygromia 

 hispida (5 mm, diameter) from Grange, Lanes. ■; Clausilia bidentata and v. craven- 

 ensis (alt. 14 mm.) from Hazelslack, Westmorland, and Warton, Lanes., for 

 comparison with a small form (alt. 7*5 mm.) of this species found abundantly at 

 roots of grass and rushes on the banks of the Keer, Carnforth. Also specimens 

 and photo-micrographs of newly-hatched fry of Paliidestrina taylori, and of 

 Glochidia (larval state of Anodonta cygmea). Also photo-micrographs of Vertigo 

 motilinsiana, V. lilljeborgi, V. antivertigo, V. pygmcsa, V. alpestris, V. pusilla and 

 V. angustior. 



By Mr. H. Beeston : Sinistral Liinnxa glabra from Scarborough. 



By Mr. II. Overton : Pleistocene and Holocene Land and Freshwater Mollusca 

 from Ightham, Crayford, Ilford, Walthamstow, Newbay, and London. 



By Mr. W. Wells Bladen : Helix nemoralis v. suffusa from Ba.lbriggan. 



By Mr. H. H. Bloomer : Malformed Anodons from Sutton Park, taken between 

 1899 and 1906. 



By Mr. C. H. Moore : Vallonia excentrica from Aberystwyth ; Limtuea trunca- 

 tula and Jaminia cylindracea from Barmouth ; J. cylindracea and Vitrea rogersi 

 approaching v. umbilicata from Dolgelly ; V. rogersi from Arthog ; V. cellaria, V. 

 alliaria and v. viridula, and Vertigo pygnuea from Meathop ; Vitrea cellaria. 



