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OEDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 13th I^ovember, 1908. 



B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Note on Biplommatina StruhelUy By E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 



2. "Descriptions of new species of Terehra, Pleurotoma, Troclms, 

 Tellina, Dosinia, and Modiola.''^ By G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. 



3. "Descriptions of new species of Macrochlamys and Pseudodon 

 from Siam." By H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 



4. "Description of a new species of Oliva.'" By F. G. Bridgman. 



Mr. E. E. Sykes exhibited, on behalf of J. H. Ponsonby, living and 

 dead specimens of a Helix, probably H. Mooniridiana, Tate. The 

 specimens had been collected by Mr. Matthews at Bridgeport, on the 

 Murray River. 



The Eev. E. W. Bowell exhibited an album of photographs of 

 radulse. 



Mr. R. H. Burne exhibited the animal of Hippopus, showing the 

 apparently inverted position of the animal with regard to the shell. 

 It was pointed out by the President that the inequality of growth was 

 probably due to the action of gravitj', and he contrasted the action of 

 this force upon Hippopus and Mytilus. 



ORDINAEY MEETING. 



Friday, 11th December, 1908. 



B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Alfred W. Oke, B.A., and Mr. Maxwell Smith were elected 

 members of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Carelia Pihlryi, n.sp., from the Hawaiian Islands." By E. E. 

 Sykes, B.A., F.L.S. 



2. "On the Eadulas of the British Helicids." Part II. By 

 Eev. E. W. Bowell, M.A. 



3. "Descriptions of six new species of Plectopylis from Tonkin." 

 By G. K. Gude, F.Z.S. 



4. "A preliminary list of Eecent Middlesex Mollusca." By J. E. 

 Cooper and A. Loydell. 



5. " The application of the names Gomphina, Marcia, H&mitapcs, 

 and Katelysia." By A. J. Jukes-Browne, B.A., F.G.S. 



The President exhibited shells from prehistoric beds of the Nile at 

 Khor Ambukoe, on the east bank, 12 kilometres south of the Dam, 

 at a height of 125 metres, and at Mens, 30 kilometres south of the 



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