14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
For Hon. LIBRARIAN: 
Mr. HENRY CROWTHER, F.R.M.S. 
For the CouNCIL: 
Mr. B. StuRGES Dopp; 
Mr. JoHN H. James, A.R.I. Cornw. ; 
Mr. Epcar L. Layvarp, C.M.G., F.Z.S.; 
Mr. J. Cosmo MELVILL, M.A,, F.L.S. ; 
Rev. Joun McMurtrigz, D.D., M.A. ; 
Mr. R. BULLEN NEWTON, F.G.S. 
These members were thereupon declared to have been duly elected to 
serve the respective offices for the year 1894-95. 
Proposed Transfer of Head-Quarters of Society: 
On the motion of Mr. R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S., seconded by 
Mr. Edw. Collier, it was unanimously resolved to ask the incoming Council 
to consider the question of the proposed transfer of the society’s head- 
quarters from Leeds to Manchester. 
Place of next Annual Meeting: 
An invitation having been sent by the Leeds members, it was resolved 
that the next annual meeting be held in Leeds at such a date as might suit 
the convenience of the newly-elected President, and that the thanks of the 
society be tendered to the Leeds members for their invitation. 
The Presidential Address 
was then delivered by the retiring President, Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., etc., 
who took as his subject ‘ The Classification of the Pelecypoda.’ 
At the conclusion of the address it was proposed by Mr. Alfred Leicester, 
seconded by Mr. P. B. Mason, F.L.S., supported by Mr. R. D. Darbi- 
shire, B.A., F.G.S., and unanimously resolved, that the best thanks of the 
society be tendered to the retiring President for his services during the year 
and the able address just delivered. : 
On the motion of Mr. Darbishire, thanks were also voted to the authori- 
ties of Owens College for the use of the museum buildings for the annual 
meeting, as also for the facilities they show to the Manchester Branch in 
respect of a place of meeting, and in other ways.—W. D.R. from notes by R.S. 
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ANNUAIE REE Ohi aar Oi arcoce 
The report now presented is for an unusually short year of nine months, 
in which the Society has kept up its customary quiet and steady progress. 
The membership is now 205, composed of 10 honorary life members, 12 
ordinary members resident abroad, and 183 ordinary members on the 
home list. 
Eight new ordinary members have been elected during the year, while 
twelve have resigned, one has died and several have been struck off for non- 
payment of subscriptions and arrears. 
J-C., viii., Jan. 1895. 
