36 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



mate knowledge of almost every scientific publica- 

 tion which in any way bore on the natural history 

 of the country, as anyone reading that charming 

 volume, "Field and Forest Eambles," will perceive. 

 This book, containing the results of the labours of 

 six years in iN'ew Brunswick, is not only brimful of 

 useful and scientific information, but a real literar}- gem, 

 written in a style alike pleasing and attractive. In it the 

 scientist, naturalist, and poet, are blended harmoniously ; 

 and the dress is now the language of fact and then the 

 gorgeous livery of a lively imagination. A lover of 

 nature in all her various moods, with a strange suscepti- 

 bility to w^hat is poetic and mystic in her finer influences 

 and manifestations ; never more at home than when the 

 winter moon is casting the weird shadows of forest trees 

 on the fleecy mantle around him, or the solitary owl with 

 ominous voice is laughing into the death-like stillness of 

 its lonely haunts; or in canoe on the midnight waters of 

 forest lake, reflecting the pale lights of heaven, and its 

 darkened wall of trees re-echoing again and again the 

 scream of the Northern Diver : Dr. Adams, in his little 

 book whispers of the spirit of the wilderness, and the 

 beauty and charms of its picturesque scenery. And yet, 

 as alread}^ observed, the clear, brief, and accurate de- 

 scription of the scientist, will be found to exist side by 

 side with the artist and poet's richness of imagery and 

 charming delicacy of thought and expression. 



It is, however, with Dr. Adams, as an ichthyologist 

 and his contributions to the science in New Brunswick 

 the writer has most to deal. He enumerates one hun- 

 dred and three species, including all those in Perley's list 

 with one or two exceptions, besides twenty-five others on 

 the authority of Dr. Gill (Synopsis of the Fishes of Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy, Canadian Naturalist, 



