330 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 
CON GHOLOGICALSSOGIEIY, 
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
254th MEETING, OCTOBER 14th, 1896. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Prof. S. J. Hickson, President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 
Transactions Royal Society South Australia, part 3, June, 1896 ; Journal 
de Conchyliologie, vol. 43, No. 43; ‘‘Lemmea peregra,” by Wm. Nelson ; 
Report of Trustees, Australian Museum, 1895; Irish Naturalist, vol. 5, 
No. 10; La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 312, Oct., 1896; Annals 
of Scottish Natural History, No. 20, Oct., 1896; New British Mollusca, by 
H. K. Jordan; Science Gossip, vol. 3, n.s., No. 29, Oct., 1896; The 
Naturalist, No. 255, Oct., 1896. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership : 
Messrs, John Linton, and Harold Barke, and Rev. M. T. Stonestreet. 
Resignation : 
Mr. Henry Crowther. 
Papers read: 
** Descriptions of eighty new species of marine shells from Lifu, Loyalty 
Islands,” by J. Cosmo Melvill and Robert Standen. 
** The mollusca of Plumstead Marshes,” by Rev. J. W. Horsley. 
Annual Report of Leeds Branch. 
Exhibits : 
By J. C. Melvill and R. Standen: Eighty new species of marine shells 
from Lifu (types), to illustrate their paper. 
By Rey. J. W. Horsley: A fine series of living Helix hortensis ftom 
Swanley, Kent, showing many beautiful colour forms—/z/acina, tucarnata, 
arenicola, lutea, and roseolabiata, and the rare band form 00300 ; also living 
examples of Helix terrestris from Dover. 
By Edward Collier: Zimnea and Pisidia from stomach of trout caught 
in an Irish lough by Mr. E. L. Layard. 
By R. Standen: Zimnea gracilis from Hamilton, Ontario, Z. peregra 
var. fenera from Upholland near Wigan, and Szeccineune wndatune monst. 
carznatum. 
By the Manchester Museum: A number of rare and very fine shells, 
recently presented, including two specimens of Svalaria magnifica, two 
Rostellaria Powist, Lyonsia saxicava from Vancouver; Yoldia thraccae- 
fornzs from Massachusetts and Vancouver; Pholas latisstina from Philip- 
pines; Zrégonia pectinata, T. dubia, and 7. Lamarcki from Tasmania and 
Australia ; Cuspidaria chinensts, Anatina lanterna and Cultellus maximus 
from China ; Lorifes philippinarum from Australia ; Glycemeris selegua from 
J.C. viii., Jan. 1897. 
