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August 12th Wind northerly. 
August 13th. Wind south. 
August 14th. Wind south. 
August 15th. Wind north. 
August 1 6th. Wind light and southerly. 
August 17th. Calm. 
August 1 8th, Great Slave Lake. Wind south-west, rained heavily 
nearly all night and well into the day. 
August 19th. Wind north-west, but very light. 
August 20th. Wind west, but light. 
August 2 1 st. Wind north. 
CONCHOLOGY. 
Edited by F. R. Latchford, B.A. 
The presence in Ottawa of. the Rev. G. XV. Taylor, and his 
enthusiasm as a student of mollusca life, led the Conchological branch to 
organize an excursion to the Laurentian lakes on September 22nd. 
Behind a fine team of bays driven by Landreville, five enthusiastic 
naturalists left town, as dawn was breaking through a heavy downpour 
of rain. The vehicle was uncovered, but rubber coats and tarpaulins 
successfully repelled the attacks of Jupiter Pluvius. With tales of flood 
and field, of wild adventure on the Fraser, Columbia and Peace, and 
the prairies of Sumass and Manitoba, the time passed pleasantly and 
rapidly. The mountains were reached before nine, and to please the 
botanists present, an expedition was led to a defile, into which the 
Walking-leaf hern Camptosoros rhizophyllus has retreated from the 
vandals who have exterminated it nearer Ottawa. A few specimens 
showing the tip of the frond taking root were selected, and the remain- 
der left to increase and multiply, in their own peculiar way. The 
graceful little . Isphniutn ttichomanes and Aspidium Braunii, both rare 
species here, were also noticed. On the side of the mountain where 
these ferns are found, many land shells were taken. The journey was 
then resumed in the rain, but frequent halts were made, now to collect 
a fern or dainty moss, now a Catocala moth, and again a fine specimen 
of the Ginseng, Aralia guinquefolia, whose bright fruit though hidden 
in the dense foliage on the mountain side had caught the watchful eye 
