434 JOURNAI. OF CONCHOLOGY. 
CONCHOLOGICAL SOGIETY 
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
263rd MEETING, JULY 14th, 1897. 
Held in the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 
Mr. W. E. Hoyle, Hon. Sec., in the chair. 
Donations to the Library announced and thanks voted : 
Transactions and Annual Report for 1896 of the Manchester Micro- 
scopical Society; Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences, part 1, 1897; Some Observations by English Naturalists on the 
Fauna of Rathlin Island and Ballycastle District, by R. Standen and others; 
Journal de Conchyliologie, vol. 44, no. 4; The Naturalist, no. 264; La 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, no. 321; The Irish Naturalist, vol. 6, 
no. 7; The Scottish Naturalist, no. 23; Bibliography of North American 
Conchology, by W. G. Binney (from Dr. Chaster ). 
New Members Elected: 
Miss G. M. Harrison, Nightingale House, 8, Manchester Rd., Southport, 
Mr. Chas. Golding Barrett, F.E.S., 39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. 
Mr. Wm. Charles Blake, 2, Acacia Villas, Ross, Herefordshire. 
Rey. Robert Ashington Bullen, B.A., F.G.S., Loughrigg, Somers 
Road, Reigate. 
Mr. John Charles Dacie, 105, Upper Richmond Road, Putney, S.W. 
Mr. William Healy Dall, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A. 
Mr. Clement Fielding, Clover Hill, Halifax, Yorkshire. 
Mr. Hugh Berthon Preston, Gampoha Estate, Uda Pussellawa, Ceylon. 
Mr. Bernard Stracey, University Union, Edinburgh. 
Candidates Proposed for Membership: 
Miss M. Loddee, Mrs. A. F. Kenyon, Messrs. D. D. Baldwin, H. 
Clifden Burnup, and Rev. Amos B. Kendig, 
: Resignations : 
Messrs. A. E. Baker and P. W. Abbott. 
Papers Read: 
*“Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Trinidad,” by E. A. Smith. 
“* Additions to ‘ British Conchology” (part II.), by J. T. Marshall. 
““ New form of Helzx terrestrzs Penn,” by C. E. Wright. 
Exhibits: 
By Mr. John Hill: Living specimens of Zestacella haliotidea, from a 
garden near Derby. 
By Mr. Charles Oldham : L27ax ctnereo-niger Wolff, from Derbyshire. 
By Rev. J. W. Horsley : Valwata alpina, and an acuminate variety of 
Linnea peregra from Hinterburg See (5,000 feet altitude) ; also a small 
form of Helix arbustorum v. flavescens, with numerous strongly-corrugated 
growth lines, from top of the Brunig Wylerhorn (6,580 feet altitude). 
By Mr. R. Welch: Planorbis albus, from Avonell, Belfast. 
J-C., viii., Oct., 1897. 
