PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 269 
LONDON BRANCH. 
MEETING, May 2oth, 1806. 
Held at 93, Southwood Lane, Highgate, N. The evening was spent 
in examining part of the Hon. Sec.’s collection. 
MEETING, JUNE 26th, 1806. 
Held at St. Peter’s Rectory, Walworth, by kind invitation of Rev. J. W. 
Horsley. Mr. Horsley exhibited and distributed living examples of Helix 
pomatia, H. sylvatica, H, obvoluta, H. tncarnata, Hl. personata, 72. villosa, 
Buliminus montanus, and some C/lausilie from Switzerland, also a large 
number of shells (chiefly marine) from Queensland, collected by his brother- 
in-law the Bishop of Rockhampton. It was decided to hold a field meeting 
in July. J. E. Cooper, Hon. Sec. 
—————_+-e-4¢—___ 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1895-96. 
Your Council in presenting this, the first Annual Report since the head- 
quarters of your Society were removed from Leeds to Manchester, are 
pleased to report a year of considerable progress. This report covers a 
period of sixteen months, as our Annual Meeting is held much later this 
year than last. 
Since the removal to Manchester, our membership has increased very 
materially. We have elected 46 new ordinary members, whilst 5 have 
resigned. We have, however, crossed off from our books a large number 
of members who were in some cases several years in arrear with their 
subscriptions. 
We have at the present time 232 members, including 10 honorary life 
members, and 222 ordinary members, of whom 6 are resident abroad. 
Fourteen meetings have been held since the last annual one, all of them 
in Manchester, and the attendance has been satisfactory. Many interest- 
ing exhibits have been brought or sent by the members, and discussions have 
often followed in various departments of conchology. 
The following papers and notes have been read :— 
L. St. G. Byne—‘‘The Marine Mollusca of Teignmouth Bay : Additions.” 
C. Oldham—‘‘Zimax ctnereo-niger in Cheshire.” 
C, Oldham—‘‘4ertolimax agrestis var. albida of Picard in Cheshire.” 
R. Bullen Newton —‘‘ On the occurrence of Alectryonia ungulata in 
South-east Africa, with a notice of previous researches in the Creta- 
ceous Conchology of Southern Africa.” 
W. J. Farrer—‘‘ Notes on the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the English 
Lake District,” 
