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Several donations have been made to the Society’s Collections during 
the year, including marine shells from Viareggio, Italy, from Mrs. Fitzgerald 
of Folkestone ; from Mr. J. E. Cooper, a collection of shells illustraiing his 
paper on the shells of Aldeburgh, Suffolk; from Mr. Chas. Oldham, the 
whole of the shells collected by him in Anglesea, and exhibited in illustra- 
tion of his paper. 
During the past year the Library has been transferred from Leeds to - 
Manchester, and (by permission of the Museum Committee) has been placed 
in a special case in a room in the upper gallery of the Manchester Museum 
in close proximity to the collections. 
The number of accessions has been 107; most of these are periodicals 
and publications of academies, received in exchange for the journal, but a 
few are independent works which are worthy of special mention :— 
Apams—“‘ The Collector’s Manual of British Land and Freshwater Shells,” 
ed. 2, 1896 (from the author). 
BerGH—“ Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Strombiden” (from the author ). 
Jenyns---‘‘ Monograph of the British species of Cyclas and Pisidium ” 
(from Mr. Kenneth Mc Kean ). 
KIENER—‘‘ Monographies des genres Purpura, Harpa, Voluta, Strombus, 
Pteroceras,” 2 vols. (from Mr. R. D. Darbishire ). 
Considerable progress has been made with the preparation of a slip 
catalogue of the Library. From the beginning of 1896 onwards this work 
will be reduced to a minimum owing to the establishment of the Institute of 
Zoological Bibliography by Dr. Field at Ziirich. For the small subscription 
of twelve shillings per annum the Society will receive a card catalogue of 
the whole of the works, reviews, and papers published on the mollusca in 
the course of the year. These will serve not only as a catalogue of the 
Society’s own Library, but also as an index to the literature of Malacology. 
It is intended to mark with a rubber stamp those titles which are in the 
Society’s Library, and to mark the others with some indication of what 
libraries in Manchester, if any, contain them. A catalogue ot the works 
previously in the Library will be made on cards of the same size, so that 
the whole can be arranged in a single series, either alphabetically according 
to authors or in classes. It is hoped that the whole of this work may be 
completed before the end of next year. 
Hon. Treasurer’s Report for 1895. 
It is satisfactory tv be able to report that in spite of unusual expenses, 
necessarily incurred by the change of head-quarters from Leeds to Man- 
chester, the large number of new members will speedily improve the 
financial position of the society. The arrears, however (amounting to 
nearly £30) will probably have to be regarded as a bad debt; and the 
liabilities of the society include a payment of £10 per annum for three 
years to Mr. Taylor for the back numbers of the journal, 
