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The President said that he has much pleasure in laying before 

 the meeting the report of the auditors, appointed at the last meeting, 

 to audit the accounts of the Society for the past year. The accounts 

 (see Appendix pp. xvii &c.) have been found correct, and the Society 

 is under great obligation to Messrs. Stewart and Peterson, who had so 

 energetically taken up the work entrusted to them. On the proposition 

 of the chairman a vote of thanks was passed to Messrs. Stewart and 

 Peterson. 



The receipt of the following communication was announced — 



1. Notes on a short trip into the Patkoi Range, by H. L. Jenkins, 

 Esq. 



2. Short Notes of a trip into the hills south of Sibsaugor, by A. C. 

 Peel, Esq. 



3. Tabular statement of 30 years' rainfall by Babu Gropinath Sen. 



4. A copy of a Journey to Kashgar in 1858, by Captain Valikha- 

 now, translated from the Russian by R. Michell, Esq., F. R. Gr. S. 

 — From the Government of India, Foreign Department. 



The following papers, some of which had been postponed from 

 previous meetings, were then read. 



I. Descriptions of marine shells from Ceylon, Sfc. ; by Messrs. 

 G-. and H. Nevill — communicated by Dr. Stoliczka ; (Abstract). 



The species described in this paper are of very great interest ; they 

 are chiefly small shells which up to this time had perfectly escaped the 

 notice of former observers and collectors in Ceylon. The Prosobran- 

 chiate Mollusca are represented by a species belonging to the family 

 Pupuridce, several small species of Trochidce &c. } the Dicrano-bran- 

 chhiate division by species belonging to the genera Fissurella, Emaryi- 

 nula, Macrochisma, &c. The last forms are always considered to be the 

 rarest shells, and conchological science is greatly indebted to the authors 

 of this paper for their untiring zeal in especially elucidating these as 

 yet little known molluscous forms of our Eastern seas. The fauna of 

 Ceylon will thus receive further additions through the following new 

 species. 



Rapana bella } Glanculus Ceylonicus, Euchelus Seychellarum, Gibbula 

 Dupontiana, G. Blanfordiana } Gibb (f) subplicata, G. StoliczJcanaj 

 Tallorbis (n. sub-g.) roseola, Pisulina (n. sub-g.) Adamsiana, 

 Emaryinula papilionacea } Em. capuloidea, Sub-emarginula Oldhami- 



