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colIecte<l ; anJ if in tli3 laival form its metaiiiorphoses should be care- 

 fiiUy noted. Tiiese observations, wlien collected and conipai-ed, ivould 

 be useful as the basis for a paper of interest and value on the Salaman- 

 ders found in the vicinity of Ottawa. 



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REPOKT OF THE CONCHOLO-UCAL BRANCH. 



To the Council of the Oltaioa Field- Naturalist Club : 



The absence of my colleague. Mr. Poirier, and my own business en- 

 gagements have prevented this branch from doing dui-iug the past year 

 the amount of work that it should do. Very little collecting was 

 possible. At Buckingham on our first excursion a number of shells 

 were taken, Succinea ohliqua was on that occasion fcund in quantity at 

 the roots of sugar maples in the grove north of the railway station. 

 Sphaerium occidentale was also found in abundance in ponds in the 

 same locality. One specimen of tUe rare Zonites hinneyanus was found 

 about a mile up the Lievres, but no other shells except the commonest 

 species were noted.' 



Late in the season the microscopic Helix minutissima was found in 

 considerable numbers under poplar logs in a moist station on the 

 Exhibition Grounds. In this locality I collected in a few minutes more 

 specimens of //. minntissima than 1 had seen in the previous five years. 



It is well known that many land shells which occur in Western 

 Ontario, some of them very beautiful, are not found in this vicinity. 

 An attemi)t has been made to establish these species here. Through the 

 kindness of Mr. G. W. Dean, of Kent, Ohio, and JNIr. Geo. J. Streator 

 of Garrettsville, in the same State, I was enabled to place in the 

 woods at various points around Ottawa, and in my garden, in the city, 

 a number of living shells, incliiding J/, thyroides, M. niu/tilineata, 

 Trindopsis tride'iituta, T. paHiuta, Falula soiitaria, /'. perspectiva, 

 Zonites llyerd, and Stenotrenia liirsutvni. I was unable to visit 

 afterwards the localities outside the city in which the shells were 

 placed, bat of those which were under my eye at home I observed that 

 Zoniles ligerci, Patula soiitaria, ami P. perspectiva, all died. The others 

 lived. J/, mvltilineata seemed to flourish best, and in November young 



