PROCEEDINGS: OCTOBER 12, I907. Ill 



Jaminia cylindracea v. albina, Sttccinea elegans. Vertigo alpestris, V. pusilla and 

 I.imnaa peregei- from Grange. 



By Mr. C. E. Wright : Scalariform examples of Limncea aurictilaria, L. 

 palustris, L. stagnalis, Planorbis sph-orbis, Helix nemoralis, H. hortensis, H. 

 arbitslorum, //. virgata, H. ilala, and H. caperala. Also Helix arbustonuii, H. 

 hortensis, H. 7-otundata, and Claiisifia bidentata from Howe Harry, Orkney Isles; 

 Physa acuta, Ashton, Northants. Series of H. nemoralis and H. hortensis from 

 Northamptonshire, collected this year. H. virgata vars., from Folkestone. 



By Mr. E. Collier : vSmall species of land and freshwater shells, inckiding 

 Vertigo alpesti-is, V. angiistior, Acicnla lineata, and LinincEa involuta. 



By Mr. J. Davy Dean : Enlarged water-colour paintings of British Hyalinia. 



By Mr. J. Madison : Series of local shells from the Birmingham district, including 

 large Fhysa heterostropha, Clausilia bidentata v. albina, \axge Liinncea stagnalis, etc. 



By the Manchester Museum : Series of specimens illustrating the manufacture of 

 Pearl-buttons from the Unionidic of the United States, including drilled examples 

 of Qitadrula ebena ; blanks as cut from shell ; blanks rough-faced ; lilanks holed, 

 and finished buttons (see "Mussel Fishing and Pearl-Button Industry," by L. E. 

 Adams, y. Conch., vol. xi., p. 215). 



By Mr. W. E. Collinge : Series of Slugs to illustrate his address. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council is pleased to be able to announce that in spile of a heavy death roll 

 the number of members of the Society has been maintained. 



On the date of the last annual meeting there were 309 members on the Society's 

 list. Between that date and the end of the year, nine new members were elected, 

 one died, two resigned, and two were struck off the list in accordance with Rule 4, 

 so that the list published on January ist of this year contained 313 names. Since 

 then sixteen new members have been elected, four have died, eleven resigned, and 

 five struck off the list, leaving at the present time 309 names — exactly the same 

 number as at this time last year. 



Dr II. A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, has been 

 elected an Honorary Member in tlie place of the late Mr. Wm. Nelson. 



The Council has regretfully to record the loss by death of Miss Caroline Birley, 

 Mr. Solomon I. DaCosta, Mr. Wm. Baillie, and Mr. Alexander Somerville, an 

 ex-president of the Society, of whom an ol^ituary notice will appear in the next 

 number of "Cd^ Journal. 



Ten meetings of the Society have been held during the past year, from October 

 20th, 1906, to September nth, 1907. The proceedings at these meetings will be 

 found recorded in three numbers of the Journal, containing 96 pages. 



The fourth number, just issued, is occupied by the Catalogue of the Society's 

 Library, filling 35 pages, which have been separately numbered, so that this can 

 either be bound at the end of the complete volume or independently as mem- 

 bers may desire. The Council has great satisfaction in recording the completion of 

 this work, and trusts that its utility to the Society will justify the expense incurred 

 in its production. 



Donations to the Cabinet have been received from Messrs. J- W. Baldwin, 

 Edward Collier, T. Edwards, A. Mayfield, H. C. Napier, and R. Standen. 



Valuable publications for the Library have been received from different societies 

 in exchange for the Journal, and most welcome additions have also been received 

 from Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, Rev. A. H. Cooke, Messrs. Paul Bartsch, 



