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CONCHOLOGY. 
I am very much pleased to be able to record an addition to the 
list of Ottawa land shells : 
In May, 1890, while searching for specimens of Pupa Armifera. 
Say, near the railway bridge on the Hull side of the Ottawa River, I 
found a number of Pupae, which at the time I considered to belong to 
some form of pe?itodon. 
A few weeks ago I sent some of the shells to Dr. Sterki, and he 
has returned them marked Pupa Holyingeri. 
Holyingeri and pentodon are very similar in size, color and 
arrangement of the " teeth," but differ in shape. 
Pentodon tapers rapidly, the apical whorls being much narrower 
than the later ones. 
ffolyitigeri is cylindrical, being of an almost uniform width through 
out. 
Dr. Sterki tells me that he now considers that pentodon and its ally 
curvidens belong to the genus Pupa, and not to Vertigo, to which genus 
they were removed, I think on his authority, a few years ago. Geo- 
W. Taylor, Victoria, B.C. 
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THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
The twelfth Annual Meeting of the above Society commenced on 
Tuesday, May 23rd. After routine business, the Reports from the 
associated Societies were read by the Delegates present. The Ottawa 
Field-Naturalists' Club was represented by Mr. Shutt. In the afternoon 
Dr. Kingsford read a paper in memoriam, on the late Sir Daniel Wilson, 
and one on the late Mr. Gisborne was read by Sir James Grant, after 
which there was a short but most enjoyable " At Home " given by Mr. 
Santord Fleming, C.M.G. The Presidential Address by Dr. Bourinot, 
C.M.G, delivered in the Normal School at 8 p.m., was a masterly treat- 
ment of " Out Intellectual Strength and Weakness," and was listened to 
with the closest interest by all who were present. After the close of the 
lecture, Dr. Bourinot had a most charming "At Home" at his residence. 
On Wednesday, at the close of the morning session, the Fellows and 
