428 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
By Mr. W. H. Heathcote: A sinistral specimen of Helix obvoluta 
(supposed to be from Ditcham, Surrey). 
Fine series of the large Madagascar He/ices, belonging to the sections 
Panda, Helicophanta, and Ampelita, were shown by Mr. Edward Collier, 
Mr. R. Cairns, and the Manchester Museum. 
262nd MEETING, JUNE 16th, 1897. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Mr. Thos. Rogers in the chair. 
Donations to Cabinet announced and thanks voted : 
By Mr. A. G. Stubbs: A further instalment of shells from Tenby, 
mounted in glass-topped boxes, comprising //elix granulata, Clausilia 
bidentata, Pupa cylindracea, and vars. curta and albina, Balea perversa, 
varieties of Limnea peregra and L. palustris, Physa fontinalis, Planorbis 
albus, P. nautileus, P. spirorbis, Pisidium fontinale, P. ammnicum, P. 
milium, and Spherium corneum, also varieties of Limnea peregra from 
Gloucester, and He/?x excavata from York. 
Donations to Library announced and thanks voted : 
Journal of Malacology, vol. 6, no. 1; Transactions of the Royal Society 
of Queensland, vol. 12; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of 
Philadelphia, part 3, 1896; Journal de Conchyliologie, vol. 44, no. 3; 39th 
Annual Report of the Chicago Academy of Science ; Bulletin of the Chicago 
Academy of Science, no. 1; Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester 
Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. 41, part 3 ; The Naturalist, no. 233, 
June, 1897 ; La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, no. 320 ; Shell-colouration 
in British Extra-marine Mollusca, by A. E. Boycott ( from the author) ; Irish 
Naturalist, vol. 6, no. 6, June, 1897. 
New Members elected : 
Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., Shalford Park, Guildford. 
M. Louis Vignal, 28 Avenue Duguesne, Paris. 
Sir Rawson W. Rawson, K.C.M.G., C.B., 68, Cornwall Gardens, 
London, S.W. 
Major-Gen. Linnzeus Tripe, 3, Osborne Villas, Stoke, Devonport. 
Rev. E. P. Blackburn, The Manse, Tendring, near Colchester, Essex. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership : 
Miss G. M. Harrison, Messrs. C. G. Barrett, W. C. Blake, J. C. Dacie, 
W. H. Dall, C. Fielding, H. B. Preston, B. Stracey, and Rev. R. A. Bullen. 
Papers Read: 
“‘ Notes on a Collection of Shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, 
formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with List of Species (Part 
III).” by J. Cosmo Melvill and R. Standen. 
‘Description of /elix JWatson?, a new species of land shell, dis- 
covered at Madeira, by Senhor J. M. Moniz, by J. Yate Johnson, C.M.Z.S. 
“Felix aspersa m. sinistrorsum at Lewes,” by C. H. Morris. 
J.C., viii., July, 1897. 
