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it has lately been frequently on sale at certain oyster shops 

 in London. Messrs. Newberry and W. West, L.D.S., testi- 

 fied to its excellence from a dietetic point of view. 



Mr. H. J. Turner reported that he had heard from Mr. A. 

 J. Croker, one of the old members of the Society, who had 

 recently emigrated to Assiniboia, Canada, and gave the 

 following extracts from his letters : 



" October 22nd. — The trip up the St. Lawrence, I can 

 never forget. Just imagine 500 miles of beautiful wooded 

 banks, with the maples of a lovely tint of pink. The river is 

 very dangerous for navigation, and we had to anchor two 

 nights before reaching Montreal. Ontario is a very wild 

 country, but most interesting. It is mountainous and well 

 wooded, not of excessive elevation, but continuous for 

 hundreds of miles. Upon reaching Fleming we had six 

 miles to drive, but the rain was then so terrific that we could 

 not drive through and had to wait until the next day. Since 

 that time up to now (October 22nd) we have had no further 

 rain. We have had continuous sunshine every day, very hot, 

 but cold at nighty half an inch of ice on the "slews," or 

 shallow ponds, but thawed clear by ten o'clock. This is 

 what the Canadians call the " Indian Summer." The sun- 

 set is simply grand. I think this will be a fine country for 

 insects ; of course just now the cold nights have stopped any 

 collecting, but I was surprised to take a Colias, allied to our 

 edusa, on October i8th. I also took a Plusia much like our 

 gamma, and another Noctua, allied to Plusia, and this 

 morning in the house I met with a specimen of Aliicita hexa- 

 dactyla. One of my brothers had saved some pieces of 

 butterflies, and among them I recognised a species of Danais 

 and a fine species allied to Enodia hyperanthiis. The country 

 is, I am told, exceptionally rich in dragonflies, which is due, 

 no doubt, to the abundance of " slews." Strange to say, 

 Artemisia maritima is one of the most common plants on the 

 prairie, but that can doubtless be explained by the soil being 

 mostly charged with alkali or very salty. I wonder if Phoro- 

 desma smaragdaria occurs. We are exceptionally rich in 

 birds, and have already had grand sport shooting amongst 

 the prairie chicken ; in England we should call them grouse. 

 It is nothing to see seventy or eighty go up at once. Many 

 species of wild duck, mallard in countless numbers, teal (blue 

 and green-winged), widgeon, pintail, heron, crane, bittern, 

 crake, and numbers of small birds. They say that they are 

 simply swarming in the spring, as there are so many " bluffs " 

 all over the place for breeding in. Among the mammals I 



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