20 JOURNAI, OF CONCHOI.OGY, VOL. If, NO. I, JANUARY, I916. 



Election of Officers and Council. 



The Scrutineers reporled that the Officers and Council for the year 1915-1916 

 had lieen elected as nominated l>y the Council (see p. 2). 



Election of Trustees. 



The resignations of the Founders of the Society, J. W. Taylor and W. Denison 

 Roelnick, as Trustees having been accepted : — 



It was proposed by Lewis J. Shackleford and seconded by J. R. le B. Tonilin, 

 and carried unanimously "That Messrs. James Cosmo Melvill and Edward Collier 

 be elected Trustees of ihe Society in pursuance and for the purposes of Rule XIV. 

 of the Society." 



On the motion of Lewis J. Shackleford, seconded by J. R. le B. Tomlin, it was 

 resolved " That an inventory of the Collections, Library, and other property of 

 the Society be made, and annually revised and certified as correct by two members 

 of the Council of the S ciety." 



Honorary Member. 



On the nomination of the Council, and on the motion of R. Bullen Newton 

 (President), seconded by Edward Collier (Vice-President), William Denison 

 Roebuck, M.Sc. , F.L.S., was unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the 

 of the Society in place of Dr. Strebel, deceased. 



President's Address. 



Mr. R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., of the British Museum, gave his Presidential 

 Address "On the Conchological Features of the Lenham Sandstones of Kent and 

 their Stratigraphical Importance." 



The best thanks of the Society were unanimously voted to Mr. Newton, and 

 votes of thanks were also passed to the Authorities of the Manchester Museum, 

 Leeds University, and the Cartwright Hall, Bradford, for the use of rooms for the 

 meetings of the Society. 



Papers Read. 



" Further Notes on Bursa riibeta L. ," by C. Hedley. 



"Occurrence ofa Pearl \vc Liltorina Uttorea L.," by H. Coates, F.R.S.E. 



" Conchological Notes from the Balkans, etc.," by L. E. Adams, B.A. 



" Note on TrUhotrof'is antarcticus M. & S. (non Thiele)," by J. Cosmo Melvill, 

 M.A., D.Sc, and R. Standen. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J. W. Taylor : A series of the original coloured drawings used in the 

 illustrating of his Monograph; a beautiful enlargement of a photograph of A'^//> 

 pisana at Tenby ; and, on behalf of Mr. Albert Salisbury, specimens of Physa 

 heterostropha from the canal at Aylesbury, Bucks. 



By Mr. R. Standen : A series of colour varieties of Cyprcea arabica ; pellucid 

 forms of C. erosa and C. variolaria ; Denlalhtin eiipatrides from 1,410 frthoms, 

 Antarctic ; Chenopus senegaleitsis, C. occideiitalis ; set of Chenopus pespelicatti, 

 from minute stages of growth to adult, from Southport ; C. serresiaitits young and 

 adult, dredged off the Irish coast ; also fine examples of Cassidaria tyrrhena and 

 Ranella giganlea from deep water in the same locality ; and a collection of Paii- 

 cularia — most of the species being hi situ on the corals Gorgonia and Allopora, 

 on which these curious mollusks live commensally. 



By Mr. Edward Collier : Family Bulinimida:, over two hundred species and 

 varieties, including many rare forms from Asia Minor, Caucasus, Turkestan, China, 



