PEOCEEDINGS OP THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIEir. 293 



OEDINAEY MEETING. 



Feidat, 13th Januahy, 1899. 



Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin-Austex, F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. "W. Croiich. and Dr. H. "Woodward were appointed Auditors of 

 the Accounts of the Society for the year 1898. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " IS'otes on the Anatomy of Trachycystis, Dorcasia, and Isomeria.^^ 

 By W. Moss and W. M. Webb, F.L.S., etc. 



2. " Illustrations of, with Notes on some, Non-Marine Hawaiian 

 Mollusca." By E. B. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



3. " Descriptions of new N on- Marine Mollusca from the Hawaiian 

 Islands." By C. F. Ancey. 



4. " Note on Valuta Hoadnightm.''^ By Agnes Kenyon. 



Mr. P. Lawson exhibited a manuscript catalogue of British shells 

 drawn up by a Mr. LongstafF early in this century. 



Mr. A. S. Kennard exhibited a specimen of Physa heterostropha, 

 Say, an American shell living in a pond near Birmingham. Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerbj^ exhibited a fine groiip of Area Noce obtained near Naples, 

 and some brilliantly coloured Unionidse from Sugar Lake, Wisconsin. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Friday, 10th Febetjakt, 1899. 

 Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin -Austen, F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. H. W. Burrows and Mr. A. S. Kennard were appointed 

 Scrutineers. 



The following Report was read : — 



" Your Council, in presenting their sixth Annual Eeport, have 

 again to chronicle a year of steady progress, although the membership 

 of the Society unfortunately shows a slight decrease as compared with 

 that of last year. 



The roll on December 31st, 1898, stood as follows : — 



Ordinary members 94 



Corresponding members 74 



Total 168 



the totals for the two preceding years being 173 in 1897, and 162 

 in 1896. 



During the past year six members have resigned, while the Society 

 has further to deplore the loss of five of its members by death, and of 



