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On the motion of Mr. A. S. Kennard, seconded by Mr. H. B. Preston, 

 the above was adopted as the Annual Report of the Society. 



The following were elected Officers and Council for the year 1898 : — • 

 President. — Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.ll.S., etc. 

 Vice-Presidents. — Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., etc.; 

 J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., P.L.S., etc. ; E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. ; 

 Dr. H. Woodward, P.R S., etc. 

 Treasurer. — Gr. F. Harris, F.G.S., etc. 

 Secretary. — M. F. Woodward. 

 Editor.—^. B. Woodward, F.L.S., etc. 



8ix other Members of Council. — H. W. Monckton, F.L.S., etc. ; 

 E. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., etc. ; G. B. Sowerbv. F.L.S.. etc. ; 

 E. K. Sykes, B.A., F.Z S., etc.; Pev. R. Boog Watson, LL.D., 

 F.Z.S., etc.; Lieut.-Col. L. W. Wilmer. 



Votes of thanks were passed to the Retiring Officers, the Auditors, 

 and the Scrutineers. 



OEDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 11th Febeuary, 1898. 



Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Landis was elected to membership of the Society. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. "Descriptions of two new species of Glausilia from the province 

 of Che-kiang, China." By E. R. Sykes, F.Z.S., etc. 



2. "List of the species of Cataulus found in Ceylon, with descrip- 

 tions of some new Land-Shells from that Island." By E. R. Sykes, 

 F.Z.S., etc. 



3. "Notes on the genus Coxiella.'" By E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 



4. "Note on Cijfrcea caput-anguis, Philippi, with the description 

 of a new variety of C. caput-ser^oentis.'''' liy Mrs. A. F. Kenyon. 



Mr. A. S. Kennard exhibited and made remarks upon additional 

 mollusca from the Ightham Fissure. 



Mr. G. B. Sowerby exhibited a new and as yet unnamed Proso- 

 branch from South Africa ; he pointed out that the animal in its 

 radula and protoconch resembled the genus Voluta, but in the general 

 character of the shell it was quite unlike that form. Mr. M. F. 

 Woodward made some remarks upon the anatomy of this animal, 

 pointing out it's great resemblance to Voluta. 



Specimens were exhibited in illustration of the papers read. 



