xxvi Proceedings. {February i4.th, i8g8. 



{Microscopical and Natural History Section?^ 

 Ordinary Meeting, February 14th, 1898. 



John Boyd, Vice-President of the Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. Rogers exhibited a new species of land shell, which had 

 recently been discovered in Lord Howe Island by Mrs. Water- 

 house, of Sydney, and had now been named Endodonia Water- 

 housia by Mr. Hedley, of the Australian Museum. Mr. Rogers 

 also showed several new species of land shells from Trinidad, 

 which had been recently discovered by Mr. W. Lunt, Assistant- 

 Superintendent at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad. Mr. 

 Lunt has been fortunate in adding considerably to the list of 

 molluscs hitherto found in that island. 



Mr. Rogers afterwards made some remarks on the habitats 

 and geographical distribution of a small British mollusc Achatina 

 acicula^ an earth-burrowing mollusc, often found in and about 

 ancient burial places, specimens having been found in the 

 so-called tear-bottles found in the graves of ancient Greece. It 

 has now been found in South Africa. 



The rest of the evening was devoted to the microscopes. . 



{Microscopical and Natural History Section^ 

 Ordinary Meeting, March 14th, 1898. 



Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., President of the Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. John Mullen, Oldham, and Mr. W. Stanley, Weaste, 

 were elected Associates of the Section. 



Mr. J, F. Allen and Mr. W. R. Scowcroft were elected 

 auditors. 



