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published in the Bulletin (No. IV,) for 1884. A second, ' On Marine 

 Invertebrata of L'Etang Harbour,'-'-' in Bulletin V in the next year. 



A third, and much more important paper -* appeared in the Bulletin 

 (No. VI), for 1886. This last contains the complete list of the Marine 

 Mollusca of New Brunswick, (the Northern waters, Northumberland 

 Straits and Bay Chaleur, are considered as well as Bay of Fundy), so 

 far as it could be compiled at that date from the works of previous 

 writers and from the author's own observations. The introduction con- 

 tains much useful information and a full bibliography of the subject up 

 to 1887. 



Nearly 200 species are noticed in this paper, and additions to the 

 list are made in Mr. Ganong's "Zoological Notes," 25 published in the 

 same series of Bulletins in 1890. Other papers by Ganong ' i4 and 

 Winkley 2,; are also published in these useful Bulletins and should be 

 consulted. 



For information regarding the Mollusca of the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 we must refer to the work of Mr. Whiteaves. His papers, of which 

 four ' H1 on this branch of the subject are noted below, contain accounts 

 of his own deep-sea dredgings, and though published more than 20 

 years ago are still most valuable, containing almost all we know of 

 the shells of these waters. There are, however, other papers by Bell, 3 

 Dawson 5 and Packard, 7 that may be consulted with advantage. 



I may also refer here to an interesting little note in the Report o 

 the Geological Survey for 1878-9, on marine shells collected in the 

 Hudson's Bay by Dr. Bell 19 who, I believe, collected additional marine 

 specimens when with the Hudson's Bay Expedition in 1884, but no 

 record of these has yet been published so far as I know. 



Altogether from 200 to 250 species* are noted, in the works I have 

 referred to, as inhabiting the waters of our Atlantic coasts. No com- 

 plete list of these has, however, been attempted, and for my own part I 

 have to confess that my knowledge of eastern Canadian conchology is 

 very imperfect. I have never enjoyed an opportunity of studying the 

 eastern shells at home and am not well acquainted with the literature. 



"Note Exactly 340 names are contained in a manuscript list that I lately prepared for my own 

 information. 



