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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



374th Meeting, Sept. 9th, 1908. 



Mr. J. W. Buldwin in tlic cluiir. 



Donations to the Library announced ami thanks volcd : 



"The Marine Fauna of Zanzibar and Kasl Africa from Collections made by 

 Cyril Crossland in 1901-1902 : The Cephalopoda." " Reports on the Marine 

 Bioloi:;y of the Sudanese Red Sea, VI., on the Cephalopoda," by VV. E. Iloyle. 

 "Descriptions of New Species of Mollusks from the Pacilic Coast of the United 

 States, with Notes on other Mollusks from the same region," by W. II. Dall. 

 "JVi)'sa a(it/aDva.\i. im Botanischen Carten zu Ivopenhagen (Daneniark)" ; "New 

 Varieties of Naiiiiia l>e/aiigeii and Corbicttla Jliiminalis Miiller from India," by 

 Mans Schlesch. "Notes on the Cheshire Land and Freshwater Mollusca," by 

 Chas. Oldham. " Manual of Conchology," part 76, by II. A. Pilsbry. " New 

 Land Shells from Corea " ; "New Land Shells of the Chinese Empire" ; " New 

 Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the Japanese Empire," by H. A. Pilsbry and Y. 

 Ilirase. " On Japanese Species of Corbicula " ; " Notes on Succinea ovalis Say, 

 and ^. obliqiia Say," by H. A. Pilsbry. "Malacology versus Pala-oconchology," 

 by B. B. Woodward. '" Mollusca of Ilolocene Deposits of Thames River System," 

 by A. S. Kennard and B. B. Woodward {from the respective authors) ; and the 

 usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Donation to the Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 



By Mr. Arthur Maylicld : Specimens of Vertigo pygiinea, J', autiverltgo, and 



V. monlinsiana from rejectamenta at Roydon Fen, East Norfolk— all new records 



for the district. 



New Member Elected. 



Mrs. A. F.. Cill, 2, Stanley Txink, Steven Street, Stretford. 

 Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



J. E. A. JoUiffe, S, Dorchester Road, Weymouth. 

 Papers Read. 



" Conchological Notes from the Argentine and Uruguay," by Lionel E. Adams, 

 B.A. 



" Report of Field-Meetings o{ the London Branch," by J. E. Cooper. 



'■'■ Pyramidtila rofnndata m. siiiistrorsiim in Bucks.," by J. E. Cooper. 



" Note on the Occurrence of /.iiiia.\ tend/us in llallon Wood, Wendover, 

 Bucks.," by Chas. Oldham. 



"Vertigo a fit ivertigo, V. aiigitstior, and V. nioiilinsiaim, new records for East 

 Norfolk," by A. May field. 



"Two and Three-denticled kurms o{ Jaiiiiiiia iiiitSiontin from Santon, Nor- 

 folk," by A. Mayfield. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. C. Oldham : l.ivia.x teiie//t/s, found feeding on fungi under beech trets 

 in Halton Wood, Wendover, Bucks. 



By Mr. Lionel E. Adams : A set of freshwater shells from Montevideo, to 

 illustrate his paper, and Liniax arhoniin from Ileadley Lane, Box Hill, Surrey. 



By Mr. G. H. Taylor: Helix x'irgata from Clitheroe and I'arnctby ; Helix 

 itala from Wootton-under-Edge ; Zonitoides uitidiis from Low Mcathop, C range; 

 Vitrea alliaria from Greenmoor, Penistone ; V. glabra from Clitheroe. 



By Mr. Arthur Mayfield : Vertigo pygnuca, V antivertigo, V. mouliiisiuiia and 

 V. aiigiistior from rejectamenta gathered at Roydon Fen. East Norfolk ; biilenlate 



