174 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Robert Albert Phillips, Ashburton, Cork. 
Dr. E. J. Sidebotham, Erlesdene, Bowdon, Cheshire. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership : 
Mr. George Fox Tregelles and Mr. Harry Overton. 
Papers Read: 
Mr. Edgar A. Smith, ‘‘A List of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca 
of Trinidad.” 
Mr. Geo. F. Tregelles, ‘‘ The Marine Mollusca of Cornwall.” 
Mr. Charles Oldham, ‘‘ Notes on some Anglesea Land and Freshwater 
Mollusca.” 
Exhibits : 
Mr. J. C. Melvill, some Helices from Ferguson Island, viz., Helix 
Rollestana Smith, A. Tayloriana var. major Sow., A. Rehsez Smith, and 
H. minnegerodei Strubell; also Rhytida Hercules Hedley from Queensland, 
FZ, loursiadensis Forbes from the Louisiade Archipelago. 
Mr. W. Moss exhibited Bzlémeulus binominis, and var. Lascellestana, 
also a new dark-banded variety, all from Grenada; also &. (Drymeus) 
Broadwayi n. sp. from Trinidad. 
Mr. R. Standen exhibited a large series of shells lately presented to the 
Manchester Museum, including a fine collection of Fissurellidze (about sixty 
species) including the genera J@ssurella, Glyphis, /Vacroschisma, Mega- 
tebennus, Lucapina, and Fissurellidea; also an extremely fine series of Carelza 
from Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, including Careléa bzcol/or and varr. 
adusta and angiulata, C. cochlea, C. Cumingiana, C. obeliscus, C. paradoxa, 
C. turricula, C. variabilis, and var. olivacea ; also a specimen of Achatinella 
(Amastra) reticulata showing young 72 sit. 
Mr. Charles Oldham exhibited the series of shells from Anglesea in 
illustration of his paper. 
LEEDS BRANCH. 
INAUGURAL MEETING. 
At a meeting of the Leeds members of the Conchological Society, held 
September 12th, it was resolved :— 
1.—That a Branch be formed of the local members of the Conchological 
Society, in connection with the parent society, whose head-quarters are 
now at Manchester. 
2.—That the Branch be called the ‘‘ Leeds Conchological Society,” and 
have for its object the encouragement of Conchological Science. 
—That the meetings be held monthly at the houses of such members as 
are willing, by the reading of papers, demonstrations affecting the 
bionomics of molluscs, exhibitions of specimens, or in any other way to 
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encourage original conchological research. 
4.—That the subscription be a levy made from time to time to cover such 
small incidental expenses as may be incurred in the working of the 
Society. 
J.C., viii., Jan. 1896. 
