PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. yj 
Exhibits : 
Mr. L. E. Adams exhibited a large series of shells he had recently col- 
lected in Kent, including Helix hortensts var. fuscolabéata, HI. pomatia, FH. 
aspersa, and var. exalbida, H. arbustorum and vars. marmorata and canigon- 
ensts. Also a scalariform specimen of . /apzc¢da, and one of the var. a/bzna. 
He also showed living specimens of H. ¢errestr7s, and stated that the species 
seemed to be firmly established and was extending in the neighbourhood 
where it was first discovered. 
Mr. Thomas Rogers exhibited Physa acuta from the water-tanks in the 
hot-houses at Chelsea Gardens, and a Physa very like heterostropha from the 
Victoria regia House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Regents Park. 
Mr. R. Wigglesworth exhibited a further set of Lzmunea auricularia 
from Clayton-le-Moors in illustration of his paper. 
Mr. R. Cairns showed a very fine series of Acme Lveata from Whitestrand 
Bay, near Peel, and one specimen from Glen May, both in the Isle of Man. 
Mr. T. Sparkes, Purpira lapellus from Coldwell Bay, Isle of Wight. 
Mr. R. Standen, Helix fusca from Bassenthwaite, collected by Captain 
Farrer. 
Mr. Alfred Sich, of Chiswick, reported the occurrence of a specimen of 
Hlelix rotundata i. sinistrorsum in a garden there. 
242nd MEETING, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd, 1895. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, President, in the chair. 
Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 
Annals of Scottish Natural History, 1895, Nos. 14-15. 
The Naturalist, Nos. 242 and 243, 1895. 
The Irish Naturalist, vol. 4, No. 9, 1895. 
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 19, part 1, 
July, 1895. 
Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia, 
vol. 3, part 3, March, 1895. 
Donations to Collection announced and thanks voted : 
From Mr. J. E. Cooper, of Highgate, N., a collection of shells made at 
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in illustration of his paper, including Vertzgo angustior, 
Cectliordes acicula, Modiolarta discors, Littorina rudis var. tenebrosa, and 
Buccinum undatum var. pauperata. 
New Members elected : 
Mr. John Simeon Edwards, Chadwick Lodge, Crown Point Rd., Leeds. 
Mr. Edward J. Bles, B.Sc., Moor End, Kersal, Manchester. 
Rev. H. A. Hudson, 1, Johnson Street, Cheetham, Manchester. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership: 
Messrs. Ernest William Wake Bowell, Herbert Taylor Wake Bowell, 
Achille Chopin, and Isaac C. Thompson, F.L.S, 
