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i. Marine Mollusca of the Eastern and Northern Coasts of Canada. 



Many excellent treatises on the Zoology of the Bay of Fundy 

 have been written, some by United States, and some by Canadian 

 Naturalists. The boundary line between Canada and the Northern 

 United States is, however, in no sense a zoological one, and consequently 

 we shall find that the publications of the United States naturalists deal- 

 ing with New England mollusca arc of great service in the study of the 

 fauna of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 



First among such publications must be mentioned Stimpson's 

 Marine Invertebrata ot the grand Manan - (1854). In this classic work 

 117 species of molluska are enumerated, all of which may be expected 

 to be found (and the majority have already been found) in New Bruns- 

 wick waters. 



Next comes Gould's "Invertebrata of Massachusetts." In the 

 original edition (1841), no references are made, I think, to Canadian 

 localities, though many of our shells are noted and described, but in the 

 second edition, (1870), edited and much enlarged by Dr. W. G. Binney, 

 such references are frequent and the work is one that is almost indis- 

 pensible 10 Canadian conchologists. 



Prof. Verrill has written many papers of much importance to us, 

 ' On the invertebrata of Vinyard Sound,' V1 ' On Dredging Expeditions on 

 the Coast of New England,' 13 ' On recent additions to the Marine 

 Invertebrata of the North-Eastern Coast of America,' u (several 

 papers), 'On the Cephalopods of the North-Eastern Coast of America,' 

 18 and so forth. 



\11 these papers contain notices of Canadian localities, and most 

 interesting notes on the habits and the nomenclature of our shells. 



The above mentioned authors, though incidentally dealing with 

 our mollusca, wrote with special reference to the United States Coasts, 

 but the writer next referred to views the subject from a purely Canadian 

 standpoint. 



Mr. W. F. Ganong has several valuable papers in the Bulletins of 

 the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. One paper, ' On the 

 Zoology of the Invertebrate animals of Passamaquoddy Bay.' - 1 was 



