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to inhabit the L.M.B.C. district up to 1685. To this has 
still to be added the 105 new forms found during this last 
summer and referred to in the present report. 
A melancholy interest attaches to one of the papers in 
Vol. TIT. of “The Fauna,” viz., The Report upon the 
Testaceous Mollusca. It was the last piece of work of 
the late Mr. F. Archer who was a member of the Com- 
mittee from the beginning, and has always taken an 
active interest in the work. In addition to all more 
personal feeling of loss, his ready sympathy, kindly 
criticism, and sturdy common sense will be greatly 
missed at the Biological meetings and on the collecting 
expeditions. Mr. Archer’s place on the committee has 
been filled up by the election, on June 3rd, of Mr. John 
Vicars. With Surgeon-Colonel 8. Archer’s sanction I 
took charge of his brother’s note books for the purpose of 
having his work on the Mollusca published. Fortunately 
Mr. Brockton Tomlin of Chester was kind enough to 
undertake the responsible work of putting the notes and 
records in proper form for the printer. It is a matter of 
ereat satisfaction to the Committee that one so eminently 
qualified both as a conchologist and also from his know- 
ledge of Mr. F. Archer’s collections and notes and 
methods was found willing to undertake this work and 
carry it out without delay. 
The Mollusca of the future L.M.B.C. expeditions will 
be worked up and reported upon by Mr. Alfred Leicester, 
Priory Gardens, Birkdale, who will gladly receive and 
acknowledge records of specimens from other conchol- 
ogists in the district. 
We have suffered another loss in the death, quite 
recently, of Mr. T. J. Moore the last President of the 
Biological Society. Mr. Moore’s poor health for the last 
few years has prevented him from taking any active part 
