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tenuipes Coupe r, Somatogyrus subglobosus Say, Pleurocera pallidum 

 Lea, Goniobasis ttanslucens Anthony and Haldemani Tryon, Limnoza 

 reflexa Say, Nuttalliana Lea, pallida C. B. Adams, galbana Say and 

 bulimoides Lea., Physa vinosa Gould, Bulimus hordaceus Lea, Planorbis 

 ammon Gould and dilatatus Gould, Ancylus fuscus C. B. Adams, 

 Selenites Voyana, Newcombe, Limax flavus Linn, Anon fuscus Miiller, 

 Mesodon exoletus Binney, Trwdopsis fa/lax Say, Pupa Blandi and 

 Succinea Grosvenori Lea. When these alterations have been made, our 

 amended list will contain 258 names. 



As will be seen from this very superficial review, the literature of 

 Canadian Conchology is already quite voluminous. A student, however, 

 needs something more than literature. To a beginner no aid is so 

 acceptable as that offered by a well arranged museum. 



I think we have a right to expect that in thi-s respect our own 

 national museum should supply all we can require. In this expectation, 

 however, we shall be disappointed. The eastern marine shells are rep- 

 resented in the museum at Ottawa by a very incomplete series. The 

 western collection, though very much better, is almost useless to the 

 student who attempts to study it by himself, as in nearly all cases the 

 names of the specimens are on the bottoms of the boxes containing 

 them and consequently concealed from view. I am speaking of course 

 of the collection as I saw it list, 16 months ago. 



It must be pointed out that this defective labelling need not be a 

 hindrance to any one really anxious to study the collection, as Mr. 

 Whiteaves is always ready (at least this has been my experience) to open 

 the cases for a bona fide student, and at the same time to give him the 

 benefit of his own vast fund of information. 



As to the land and freshwater shells in the Ottawa Museum there 

 are very few indeed on exhibition. Though the officers of the Geological ' 

 Survey have travelled through the length and breadth of the Dominion 

 and collected extensively in many localities, the specimens they have 

 brought together are still for the most part un reported on, or at any rate 

 the records are unpublished, and the specimens themselves are stored 

 away in private cabinets and rooms. 



I am perfectly aware that there is no space in the present museum 



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