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REVIEWS. 



Catalogue of the Marine Invertebrata of Eastern Canada. 

 By J. W. Whiteaves. LL.D , F.G.S., F.R.S.C. Geological 

 Survey of Canada, pp. 271. 1900. 



The publication of this catalogue will be hailed with genuine 

 delight by zoologists the world over, and especially by marine 

 biologists on this continent. Dr. Robert Bell, the eminent head 

 of the Geological Survey, in his introductory note, modestly ex- 

 presses the hope that it may stimulate to renewed activity Canadian 

 naturalists, who have taken up marine researches, and he very 

 appropriately refers to the opportuneness of the appearance of this 

 catalogue soon after a Marine Biological Station has commenced 

 its work on our Atlantic shores. 



Dr. Whiteaves would be the first to disclaim for this catalogue 

 its title to be considered a magnum opus, yet such it is, and as 

 such it will be regarded by American naturalists in the future. 

 Hitherto reliance had to be placed on scattered and fragmentary 

 lists and notices by Canadian workers, or to the memoirs and 

 catalogues published in the United States, and professedly dealing 

 less with Canadian than with United States' local faunas. Now 

 we have a faunistic list of our own so far as marine invertebrates 

 are concerned. Two features at once strike the appreciative reader 

 on perusing this catalogue, — first, the extensive geographical area 

 it covers, and the large amount of material it embraces (the species 

 enumerated being over a thousand in number) and second, the 

 care and accuracy revealed on every page of the publication. This 

 latter characteristic the scientific world has long recognised in all 

 Dr. Whiteaves' work and anj one familiar with the reports, now 

 somewhat venerable lor they date back thirty years, in which Dr. 

 Whiteaves summarised the results of his dredging expeditions in 

 the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Bay of Chaleurs, and 

 the Bradelle and Orphan banks as well as parts of the coast of 

 Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island during the years 1871, 

 1872 and 1873, which reports were published by the Department 

 of Marine and Fisheries, will experience no surprise at the extent 

 of the coastal waters covered by Dr. Whiteaves in the present 

 catalogue. What an infinite amount of labour is represented by 



