202 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. R. Cairns exhibited various shells from Tasmania and Queensland, 
principally Helices and Bulimi, also very fine Baccznum Humphreysianun, 
from Jersey. 
The Chairman announced that the Council had decided that twenty- 
five reprints should be presented to all writers of papers that are published 
in the Journal. 
246th MEELVING, FEBRUARY 5th, 1896. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 
The Irish Naturalist, No. 2, vol. 5, Feb., 1896. 
La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 304, Feb., 1896. 
The Naturalist, No. 247, Feb., 1896. 
Science Gossip, Nov., 1895. 
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, part 2, vol. 19. 
Proc. and Trans. Nova Scotian Institute of Science, part 4, vol. 8. 
Proc. Academy of Nat. Science of Philadelphia, 1895, part 2. 
Donations to the Cabinet Fund announced and thanks voted : 
From Mr. Henry Coates, F.R.S.E., 5/-; from Mr. Bernard Arnold, 5/-. 
; New Member elected : 
Mr. Walter Garstang, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership : 
Mr. John George Brass and Mr. William Rayson Smitk. 
Decease and Resignations of Members announced : 
Mr. S. W. North, M.R.C.S., died in 1894 (not before noted in the 
Society’s books). 
Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell resigned in 1895. 
Mr. G. A. Adams, Rev. E. S. Dewick. 
Paper read: 
Mr. J. T. Marshall: ‘‘Additions to British Conchology.” 
Exhibits : 
Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill exhibited two specimens of the rare Volute, V 
canaliculata McCoy—one of the specimens is in his own collection, the 
other in that of the Manchester Museum, Owens College. Only six indi- 
viduals are so far known in collections, of which four, including these now 
exhibited, are in this country. It belongs to the section Amorza Gray 
(Scaphella Swainson) characterized by porcellanous smoothness of the 
whorls, and absence of nodulosity, or spines, the shell being fusiform, spire 
conical, columella with four to five plaits. The species differs from all its 
allies, in the channelled suture, and the four rows of fawn-coloured spots. 
Its length is barely two inches. Native of South Australia. All the other 
species of Amoria are either Australian or Tasmanian, V. maculata Sowb., 
being perhaps its nearest ally. Dr. J. C. Cox described this species as /. 
.C., viit., April 1896 
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