378 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY: 
259th MEETING, MARCH Ioth, 1897. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Mr. Edward Collier in the chair. 
Additions to Library (by subscription) : 
Monograph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, 
by J. W. Taylor, parts 2, 3, and 4. 
Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 
The Naturalist, no. 260, March, 1897; Science Gossip, vol. 3, nos. 
33-34, Feb.-March, 1897; Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 3, 
no. I, Jan., 1897 ; Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 
vol. 20, part 2, Dec., 1896; from Smithsonian Institution—Report on the 
Mollusks collected by the International Boundary Commission of the United 
States and Mexico, 1892-94, by W. H.. Dall; Descriptions of Tertiary 
Fossils from the Antillean Region, 1896, by R. J. L. Guppy and W. H. 
Dall; and on the genus Remondia Gabb, a group of Cretaceous Bivalve 
Mollusks, by T. D. Stanton; Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester 
Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. 41, part 2, 1896-97; La Feuille 
des Jeunes Naturalistes, no. 317, March, 1897. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership : 
Messrs. James Chanter Blackmore, and Arthur Edwin Boycott. 
Discontinuance of Summer Meetings : 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was resolved: ‘‘ That no 
meetings of the Society be held in July and August.” 
Paper read: 
“6 Note on Scinztz/la eddystonia Marshall,” by G. W. Chaster. 
Exhibits : 
By Rev. Lewis Shackleford : A beautifully-preserved series of Chitons, 
mostly recently-described species, collected by Mr. E. H. Mathews in South 
Australia, including Chzton calliozona Pils., RX. exoptandus Bed., C. tricostalis 
Pils., Zschnochiton cariosus Pils., 7. Tateanus Bed., /. ustulatus Reeve, 
I. virgatus Ang., 7. cuneatus Matt., Acanthochiton asbestoides Pils., A. Bed- 
nalli Pils., A. granostriatus Pils. 
A fine series of Strepfaxide, comprising many rare examples of the 
genera Streptaxis, Ennea, Gibbus, and Streptostele, were shown by Messrs. 
J. C. Melvill, E. Collier, R. Cairns, J. R. Hardy, W. H. Heathcote, T. 
Rogers, R. Standen, and the Manchester Museum. Two examples of the 
sinistral form of Gibdus Lyonetianus were shown—one in Mr. Collier’s col- 
lection, and the other in the Manchester Museum, presented by Mr. J. 
Ray Hardy. 
At the April Meeting there will be a special exhibit of the group of 
Helices contained in the section Odda Beck. 
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