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At 5 o'clock the President, Mr. W. T. Macoun, called the 

 meeting' to order and the usual addresses were given. Mr. 

 Macoun spoke shortly of the objects of the club and urged the 

 claims of the club for more g-eneral support by all interested in 

 Natural History and Nature Study. He spoke also of some of the 

 trees growing in the locality. Dr. Fletcher'spoke of some of the 

 plants collected and gave information about specimens handed in. 



Mr. D. A. Campbell spoke of and exhibited some of the in- 

 sects collected during the afternoon and dealt with the habits of 

 tiger beetles, dragon flies and other insecis, also with the methods 

 of collecting, killing and preserving insecis. 



Dr. S. B. Sinclair spoke of the pleasures to be gained from 

 such meetings as the club gave opportunities for, and at his re- 

 quest the party had the pleasure of hearing the ladies and g-entle- 

 men of the Normal School present sing "Sweet and Low," which 

 was done with great taste and was much enjoyed by all. 



Mr. Congdon, of Malone, N.Y.,on invitation of the President, 

 expressed his pleasure at bejng a participant in the excursion and 

 of the value of Nature Study to which he had given some attention 

 in his professional work as a teacher. T. E. C. 



CONCHOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Margaritana deltoidea. 



Some years ago, while looking over a box of "dead" shells 

 collected in the Rideau Canal above Hartwell's Locks, I was sur- 

 prised to find among them a single specimen of Margaritana 

 deltoidea. Although the species might from its known range be 

 expected to be found in the vicinity of Ottawa, I concluded, as I 

 had not observed it previously, that the specimen must have been 

 placed with the canal shells by the busy but unscientific little 

 hands that occasionally find occupation in my cabinets. I was 

 confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that a search, made under 

 favorable conditions in the locality in which the box was collected, 

 was fruitless so far as this particular species was concerned. 



Last summer, however, while trout fishing on the South 

 Branch of the Quyon River, near Thorne Centre in the county of 

 Pontiac, I found a living example — and but one — of this interesting 

 little pearl bearer. It may occur in other places near Ottawa, and 

 is, I am now inclined to think, to be found in the Rideau Canal, 



