PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 15 
The member of whom the Society has been deprived by death is the 
veteran naturalist the Rev. George Gordon, LL.D., of Elgin, whose name 
will ever be honourably associated with the development of natural science 
in the north of Scotland, and for his own herculean share of work done in 
investigating the Fauna and Flora of the province of Moray. 
In this connection mention should be made of the great loss which our 
science has sustained in the death of Mr. Charles Ashford, for although he 
was never actually a member of the Society, he was an anatomist and con- 
chologist with whom very few if any could compare in the accuracy and 
fidelity of his work. 
Eight meetings have been held since the last Annual one, all of them in 
Leeds, and a large number of interesting exhibits have been made at all the 
meetings. 
The following papers and notes have been read :— 
R. Standen & J. Ray Hardy—‘The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of 
Oban and the Island of Lismore.’ 
Rey. S. Spencer Pearce, M.A. and Arthur Mayfield—‘The Land and Fresh- 
water Mollusca of Kast Norfolk.’ 
G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S.—‘ Marine Shells of South Africa.’ 
G. W. Chaster and W. H. Heathcote—‘ Dredging at Oban.’ 
R. F. Scharff, Ph.D.—Short Notes on a Method of ‘ Distinguishing Zémax 
maximus and L. aréorum, and on a New Mode of Killing Mollusks 
in an Extended Condition.’ 
A. T. Daniel, M.A.—‘ Hydrobia jenkinsé in an inland locality.’ 
R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S.—‘ Note on Some Molluscan Remains lately 
observed in the English Keuper.’ 
Edgar Leopold Layard, C.M.G., F.Z.S.—‘ Mimicry in Mollusca.’ 
John W. Taylor, F’.L.S.—‘ Occurrence of a Sinistral Example of Szccznea 
oblonga in South Perthshire.’ 
Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S.—‘ Note on the Genus Ba/ea.’ 
Lionel E, Adams, B.A.—‘ Hydrobia ( Paludestrina) jenkinsi at Lewes.’ 
J. T. Marshall—‘ Additions to British Conchology.—Addenda.’ 
All these papers have been, or will shortly be, published in the 
‘Journal of Conchology,’ and it will be seen from the list given that the 
members’ attention is devoted to all branches of the science. 
Three numbers of the ‘ Journal of Conchology’ have been issued during 
the past year, the contents of which show that it is still worthy of its 
position as the most important English periodical devoted to the study of 
the mollusca. : 
The arrangements for its issue made with the Editor in 1889 will 
continue to be in force till the end of the volume now publishing. Your 
Council are engaged in negotiations with the Editor respecting the future 
conduct of the Journal, and the terms on which future volumes are to be 
issued. 
The Society’s collections which are deposited in the Museum at Leeds, 
have received numerous interesting additions during the year. Special 
