76 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 
CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
IPIR ONG 18, 18, ID IUIN Ge 
237th MEETING, May Ist, 1895. 
Mr. John W. Taylor, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 
Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 
The Naturalist and Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, for May, and May— 
June, 1895—from the respective Editors. 
Reprint of paper by Mr. C. T. Simpson, on Distribution of Land and 
Freshwater Mollusca of the West Indian Region and their evidence with 
regard to Past Changes of Land and Sea,—and Reprint of paper by Dr. 
Rudolph Bergh,—Die Hedyliden, eine Familie der kladohepatischen Nudi- 
branchien (Wien 1895) from the respective Authors. 
Resignation of Members announced. 
Dr. C. W. Viner, and Mr. Wilfred Bendall. 
Papers Read: 
A Paper by Mr. James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., entitled “An 
Epitome of the Life of the late Hugh Cuming, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., ete.,” 
was read. (See Journal of Conchology for April, 1895, p. 59). 
Exhibits : 
The President showed Zimnaa abyssicola from the Lake of Geneva, 
where it is found at a depth of 30—r100 metres, sent by Dr. Aug. Brot; a 
new species of 4zeca found at Ingleton ; examples of Zimnea auricularia 
and distorted examples of Z. stagnalis from the salt marshes of the Sea 
of Aral, sent by Rev. A. H. Cooke; specimens of Uzzio tumzdus taken by 
Rev, W. C. Hey at the dam at Yearsley, and the Foss near York, and 
others found within a hundred yards; the latter specimens beirg normal, 
the former much distorted by their position at the dam ; as well as examples 
of monstrosities of Planorbis marginatus, collected by Mr. J. Beevers at 
Waterloo near Leeds. ; 
He also showed a number of shells collected in the Camargue, or Delta 
of the Rhone, dept. Bouches-du-Rhone, France, by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, 
F.L.S., including Cardiwm edule, Helix aspersa, H. vermiculata, Aporrhais 
pes-pelecani, H. pisana, H. acuta, Limnea stagnalis, and L. palustris from 
the Camargue itself, H. aspersa and var. exalbida and H. nemoralis var. 
castanea 00000 from Arles, H. asfersa, H. vermiculata, H. virgata, H. 
terrestris, H. pisana, and Limnea palustris from la Crau, L. palustris 
from the Etang de Consecaniere, Azodonta anatina, Limnea stagnalis, 
L. palustris, Planorbis corneus, Paludina contecta, and Bythinia tenta- 
culata, from the Marais de Meyranne, Bouches-du-Rhone. 
J.C., viii., July 1895. 
