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Mr. Alfred Hartley, ‘‘ e/?x nemorals and /. virgata without Food for 
Fourteen Months !” 
Messrs. Edward Collier and Robert Standen, ‘‘ Further Conchological 
Notes from the West of Ireland.” 
Mr. Charles Oldham, ‘‘ On the Habits of Vertego edentuda.” 
Exhibits : 
Mr. L. E. Adams exhibited a series of He/zx pomatia showing line of 
nacre found inside the winter epiphragm, also one with abnormally thickened 
lip, and another with abnormal thick growth and detached pearl. 
Mr. A. Hartley sent for exhibit two specimens of //e/7x hortenszs var. 
roseozonata from Aberford, Yorkshire, also a living specimen of HZ. hortenszs 
which had formed an extension of the mouth after completion of the lip, 
this extension having neither colour or epidermis. 
Mr. C. Taylor exhibited a peculiar form of Lemnea stagnalis from 
brackish water near Cleethorpes. 
Mr. Charles Oldham showed Vertigo edentula from Compstall, Cheshire, 
and a large series of Pzszdza from various localities. 
Mr. Edward Collier exhibited a large series of Helix nemoralis and ZH. 
aspersa from the West of Ireland, including 4. nemoralis vary. “bellula, 
rubella, castanea, petiveria, albescens, hyalozonata, albina, punctella, bimar- 
ginata, albolabiata, roseolabiata, luteolabiata, tenuis, coalita, major, and m. 
Sinistrorsum, and two specimens distinctly umbilicated. He also showed a 
large series of the heavy semi-fossil HZ. emoralis from Dogs Bay, and sections 
of the same to show the extreme thickness and solidity of the shell; He/ix 
aspersa from Ballyvaughan, and the type and var. exal/dida from the Aran 
Islands. 
Mr. R. Standen exhibited from Dogs Bay, Defrancia purpurea and D. 
lincaris, Pleurotoma cestata, P. levigata, P. nebula, and P. turricula, Cert- 
thium reticulatum, Certthiopsis tubercularis, Cylichna cylindracea, etc. 
Also specimens of Letéorina littorea and Purpura lapillus (broken) from 
the ‘* Kitchen Midden.” 
244th MEETING, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4th, 1895. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, President, in the chair. 
Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 
La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 302, Dec., 1895. 
The Irish Naturalist, vol. 4, No. 12, Dec., 1895. 
The Naturalist, No. 245, Dec., 1895. 
Science Gossip (new series), vol. 1 and vol. 2, March to Oct., 1895. 
Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 2, No. 6. 
Donation to Collection announced and thanks voted: 
From Mr. Charles Oldham, shells collected by him in Anglesea and 
exhibited in illustration of his paper. 
New Members elected : 
Mr. John Chadwick, 6, Stanley Grove, Sale, Cheshire. 
Mr. Thomas Edwards, Waterloo House, Coventry Street, Leicester. 
