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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

 CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. 



444th Meeting-, held at the Manchester Museum, Sept. 8th, 1915. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Additions to the Library announced and thanks voted : — 



'■'■ [oiirnal of Conchology" several numbers completing Volume I. {presented by 

 ]\[r. IV. Deiiison Rcebuck). 



" Statistical Methods with Special Reference to Biological Variation," by C. B. 

 Davenport {presented by Dr. A. E. Boycott). 



"Salient Features in the History of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union" (Presi- 

 dential Address, 1904), by W. Denison Roebuck. 



" The Genus Claiisilia " (Presidential Address to the Malacological Society, 

 191 5), by the Rev. A. IT. Cooke. 



"The Philippine Land Shells of the Genus Schistoloma," by P. Bartsch. 



" Manual of Conchology," part 90, by H. A. Pilsbry. 



" Holocene IMollusca of Letocetum," by H. Overton. 



" The Recent and Fossil Mollusks of the Genus Rissoifta from the West Coast 

 of America," by P. Bartsch. 



" On the Non-Marine Mollusca of a Post-Pliocene Deposit at Apethorpe, 

 Northamptonshire," by A. S. Kennard and B. B. Woodward. 



'■''On HeliceIla{Candidula) crayfordensis n.sp. , from the Pleistocene Deposits 

 of South-Eastern England," by A. S. Kennard and B. B. Woodward. 



•' Report on the Mollusca (Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee)," and 

 ^^ Pisidmm supinnvi A. Schmidt in South Lancashire," by J. Wilfrid Jackson 

 {from the respective authors) ; and the usual periodicals received in exchange. 



Donations to the Autograph Collection announced and thanks voted : — 

 R. Ashington Bullen, Ew. Wust, Com. Caziot, A. C. Johansen, L. Richardson, 

 P. Hesse. Donor : A. S. Kennard. 



New Members Elected. 

 T. van Hyning. 

 C. P. Hurst. 



Candidate Proposed for Membership. 



Henry Day, M.Sc, Clifton Terrace, Hayfield Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith. 



Papers Read. 



"■ Littorina littorea L. , a Doubtful Record," by J. C. Dacie. 



" Some Notes on Litnncea pereger m. sinistrorsin)i,^^ by W. H. Hutton. 



" Note on Urocoptidce,'" by G. C. Spence. 



" Note on the \^x. fascialba Taylor of H. neinoralis L. ," by J. E. A. Jolliffe. 



" A New Variety of Voluln africana Reeve," by Lewis J. Shackleford. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. E. Collier : Liinax maxifiius sub-var. punctata, a very large specimen, 

 from Broadway, Worcestershire. 



By Mr. G. C. Spence : Eggs of Urocoptidce and Coeloceiitrum eisenianuni I'ils., 

 to illustrate his paper ; also a series of Holospira, from Arizona and New Mexico, 

 and some newly-described species from Cuba. 



By Mr. C. H. Moore : A number of Tasmanian marine shells. 



