220 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



373rd Meeting, June 17th, 1908. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 

 " Vertigo moulinsiana Dupuy, an addition to the Irish Fauna," by R. A. 

 Phillips. " Reports on the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, v., on 

 the Polyplacophora, or Chitons," by E. R. Sykes. "A Note on Loligo media 

 (L. )," by Anne L. Massy. " Mollusca, Zoological Record," by E. R. Sykes, 

 completed by S. Pace and R. M. Pace ; and the usual periodicals received in 

 exchange. 



Donation to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : By Mr Geoffrey D. 

 H. Carpenier, a set of Acanthimila lavidlata, from Burnham Beeches, Bucks. 



New Members Elected. 



Mr. Francis N. Balch, 60, State St. (Rooms 504-507), Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 

 Rev. R. E. Thomas, M.A., St. Martin's Clergy House, Salisbury. 



Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



Mrs. A. E. Gill, 2, Stanley Bank, Steven Street, Stretford. 



Papers Read. 



" Vertigo alpestris, its distribution in W. Lancashire and Westmorland," by 

 Messrs. Dean and Kendall. 



"Report of the Grange Ramble, June loth, 1908," by J. Wilfrid Jackson. 



"Note of a shell-collecting trip in Ireland," by F. H. Sikes. 



" On the use of certain preoccupied names for European Mollusca," by 



Bryant Walker. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. G. D. II. Carpenter : Zonitoides excavatus var. vitrina, from Burn- 

 ham Beeches, Bucks. 



By L. St. G. Byne : A curious monstrosity of Cyprcza nioneta with pro- 

 duced spire. 



By Mr. Chas. Oldham : A number of very fine Limax flavus, from hollow 

 in a decaying sycamore on the Plestor, Selborne, Hants. 



By Mr. J. D. Dean and Rev. C. E. Y. Kendall : Thirty locality sets of 

 Veiiigo alpestris and V. ptcsilla, with enlarged coloured drawings of shells and 

 animals (by Mr. Dean), to illustrate their paper. 



By Mr. J. Kidson Taylor : Series of Hdicigona lapicida, shewing variation 

 from very dark to light form?, ftom Miller's Dale, Derbyshire. 



By Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson : («) A large series of Pleistocene shells from 

 the "shell-bed" at Swanscombe, Kent, including Unio littoralis, Corbicula 

 ^uminalis, Pisidiwn amnicwn, P. astartoides, Bithynia tenlaculata, Valvata 

 piscinalis, var. atitiqua and var. naticina, Neritina gratchupiana, and Paludes- 

 trina ventrosa, also Neiitina danubialis from Vienna, the nearest living form to 

 N. o-ralelotipiana. (i) Aciciila H^uata and var. alba from Eggerslack Wood, 

 Grange ; Succinea oblonga, Lintnaa palustris, Janiinia muscoruni type, var. 

 edentula, and a form with two denticles at the base of the last whorl,? var. 

 bigranata, from Meathop Fell ; Ccecilioides acicula from Grange, Lanes. 



