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conchology. 
Edited by F. K. Latchford, B.A. 
Several hundred Helix rufescens and H. Cantiana, collected at 
Quebec, with probably a thousand eggs of the latter species, have been 
set out on the Exhibition Grounds west of Machinery Hall. The place 
selected is quite undisturbed, even when other portions of the grounds 
are thronged with people ; and as it is easy of access frequent observations 
may be made of the success or failure of these shells to exist so far 
inland. Both species have made their way into Canada from England 
and are now as firmly established on Cape Diamond as the flag which 
they followed across the sea. H. rufescens abounds throughout the 
City of Quebec, at Levis, and on the Island of Orleans. H. Cantiana 
appears to be restricted to two localities on the escarpment of the Cape : 
and this may account for the fact that the shell escaped notice until 
1885, It is not known to occur elsewhere in America, and its struggle 
for existence here will be watched with interest. L. 
Another shell, H. harpa, small but beautiful and a native ot our 
northern clime, though not hitherto known to occur in this vicinity, has 
also been introduced on the peninsula, near Machinery Hall. More 
than a hundred mature individuals from Ste. Petronille, on the Island 
of Orleans, have been placed among just such bracken and poplars, as 
they had been taken from a few days before. L, 
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