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Mr. Rogers made some remarks in continuance of a 

 previous communication made by him to the Society. * On 

 some observations made by his son during the years 1882 

 and 1883 on the absence of the earthworm on the prairies 

 which lay along the track of the Canadian Pacific Eailway 

 between Winnepeg and East of the summit of the Rocky 

 Mountains.' His son having resided during the year 1884 

 West of the Rockies (Vancouver's Island) had continued his 

 enquiries and observations amongst the farms and older 

 inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Corvichan, an agricul- 

 tural district, and in some part an Indian reservation, about 

 40 miles from Victoria, which resulted in the general belief 

 that no earthworms existed there up to that time. But 

 during his occupation of road making near his own farm, 

 he himself had found two specimens, which he exhibited at 

 the time, much to the surprise of his more immediate neigh- 

 bours. 



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