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moved from the catalogue of provincial fishes. Discard- 

 ing then these five forms, there remain fifty-seven well 

 established species, representing the ichthyological labours 

 of Moses Perley. 



The eminent natuarlist, Theodore Gill, M.D., Ph. D., 

 to whose researches the science of ichthyology in America 

 is so largely indebted, published in 1865 a "Synopsis of 

 the Fish of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy " 

 {vide "Canadian Naturalist," Vol. II., 1865), which was 

 followed in 1873 by a "Catalogue of the Fishes of the 

 East Coast of ISTorth America." Though not to be ac- 

 cepted as an authority on provincial fishes, these works 

 proved of much value to subsequent investigators on ac- 

 count of the information they gave resyjecting species 

 liable to occur in the littoral waters of aS'ew Brunswick. 

 For this reason Prof. Gill's name and labours deserve 

 honourable mention, at least, in any review of the pro- 

 gress of ichthyology in Eastern Canada. 



Such seems to have been the state of the science in 

 New Brunswick when there arrived in 1866 that versa- 

 tile writer and accomplished traveller and scholar, A. 

 Leith Adams, M. A., F. R. S., etc., stafl:-surgeon-major of 

 Her Majesty's 22nd regiment. An admirer of nature, a 

 scientist, already an author of some repute on the 

 natural history of India and the archaeology of the 

 Nile and Maltese Islands, he was well equipped through 

 taste and training to enter eagerly the fresh fields this 

 corner of the New World presented. He plunged at 

 once into the wilderness. No difficulty daunted, no toil 

 discouraged him : he bore with cheerfulness the hard- 

 ships and exposure of long winter journeys through the 

 forest, and the discomfort and torture caused by swarms 

 of mosquitoes and other insect pests during his summer 

 wanderiuiTS over the barren lands and inland watei- 



