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Mr. Rogers exhibited a number of Plants collected by 

 his son, Mr. Leo Rogers, on the track of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, between Winnipeg and the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



December 3rd, 1883. 



J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President of the Section, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Rogers mentioned that he had been making enquiries 

 as to the prevalence of earth worms in North America from 

 his son, Mr. Leo Rogers, who had travelled from Winnipeg 

 to the Rocky Mountains, and seen large tracts of country 

 ploughed up, and from naturalists and farmers working near 

 the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and they all con- 

 curred in the statement that the common earthworm was 

 not met with in Manitoba and the North West territories. 



Mr. Hyde remarked that crushed laurel leaves were not 

 so rapidly fatal to grasshoppers as to wasps, bees, spiders, 

 and beetles. He found that whilst the latter insects died 

 in from two to three minutes, grasshoppers would remain 

 alive for three days in the bottle. He also noticed that 

 insects killed in this way died with the proboscis extended. 



Mr. Brothers exhibited a Photograph of the Great 

 Nebula in Orion, taken by Mr. Common, of Ealing, in 87 

 minutes, with a thirty feet telescope. Also a Photograph 

 of a portion of the Sun's surface, taken at Meudon in 

 October, 1877, by Professor Janssen. 



