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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



376th Meeting-, Nov. nth, 1908. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 



" Supposed new Species of Helicina and Biilimiilus from Costa Rica." " Des- 

 cription of a new Sub-genus and Species of .-:?/j'(r(g//j' from Ke-lan-tan." "Descrip- 

 tions of four new Species of Melania from New Ireland and Ke-lan-tan." 

 " Descriptions of new Species of Land and Freshwater Shells from Central and 

 South America." "Descriptions of nine new Species of Land Shells from New 

 Caledonia." "Descriptions of two new Species of Nassa from Fiji and New 

 Caledonia." "Descriptions of four new Species of Marine Shells, probably from 

 Ceylon." " Description of a new Species of Liinn^ui from North-West Australia." 

 " Description of a new Petmics ko\\\ Palestine." " Diagnoses of new Species of 

 Coj-bula and Biihinella from Lower Bengal." " Descriptions of new Species of 

 Marine Pelecypoda from the Philippine Islands." " Descriptions of new Species 

 of Marine Shells from Ceylon." " Description of a new Species of Clathurella 

 probably from Ceylon." " Descriptions of new .Species of Land, Freshwater, and 

 Marine Shells from West Africa." " Description of a new Species of Rhagada 

 from Western Australia." " Descriptions of new Species of INIarine and Fresh- 

 water .Shells in the Collection of the Indian Museum." " descriptions of new 

 Species of Land, Marine, and Freshwater Shells from the Andaman Islands." 

 "Notes on Shells from the Victoria Falls, etc." — all by H. B. Preston. 



Reprints of the articles on Non-Marine MoUusca in the " Victoria History of 

 the County of Vorkshire," " — Cornwall," " — Devon," " — Hereford," " — 

 Leicestershire," " — ^Staffordshire," " — -Worcestershire," " — Warwickshire," 

 " — Sussex,"" — Somersetshire," " — Kent," " — Rutlandshire," "—Essex," 

 " — -Durham," " — Buckinghamshire," " — Berkshire," " — Lancashire," " — 

 Bedfordshire," " — Shropshire" — all by B. B. Woodward, with the assistance of 

 others in special instances {froin iJie respective authors') ; and the usual periodicals 

 received in exchange. 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Albert J. Moore, 9, Brook Street, Hull. 



George II. Weaver, 31, Devonshire Road, Palmer's Green, London, N. 



Members Deceased. 



R. 1). Darbishire. 



Alfred Leicester. 



The following resolution was passed in reference to the above : — " The Council 

 and members of the Conchological Society desire to place on record the sense of 

 the great loss which the Society has sustained through the lamented deaths of ^Nlr. 

 R. D. Darbishire and also of Mr. Alfred Leicester, and instruct the Secretary to 

 convey to the relatives of the deceased gentlemen their most sincere condolence." 



Papers Read. 



" Helix iienioralis in North-West Donegal," by E. Collier. 



'■^ Helix nenioralis eaten by rabbits," by Lionel E. Adams, I!. A., and C. E. 

 Wright. 



" The Banding of Helix iie/noirilis,'^ by Canow J. W. Ilursley. 



" Vertigo aiUivertigo Drap. in Northants. ,"' b)- C. E. Wright. 



" Some New Herefordshire Records," by J. R. le Brockton Tomlin, .M..-\. 



" MuUusca of Kendal, Westmorland," by J. Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S. 



" Ilolocene Mollusca near Circat Mitton, Vorks.," by J Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S. 



