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used as guides, books showing what facts are already known and what 

 principles may best be used in further study. Such books are the 

 great need of local Natural History study to-day, and they will prove 

 as great a stimulus to it when supplied, as Gray's Manual, for ex- 

 ample, has been to the study of classification of the flowering plants. 



To these problems may be added another of no small importance, 

 the local and aboriginal names and uses and folk-lore of plants and 

 animals, and other historic associations, including their relation to the 

 early settlement or progress of the country. 



The groups of New Brunswick Animals and Plants, with the work 

 already done in listing them, is as follows. In cases where there is 

 more than one list, only the later is cited. 



Plants. 



Flowering Plants. Fully listed for Occurrences in Fowler's List in Bulletin IV, 

 with many additions in later Bulletins. Distribution, Habits and 

 Adaptations yet to be studied. 



F( rns, Lycopods and Equisetums. Listed with the Flowering Plants. 



Mosses. Partly listed by Fowler Rep. Secretary of Agriculture of N. B. , 

 1878), and in Moser's List in Bulletin XVI. 



Livt rworts. Preliminary List (very incomplete) by Fowler in 1878. 



Lichens. Preliminary List (very incomplete) by Fowler in 1878. 



Fungi. Preliminary List (ver}' incomplete) by Fowler in 1878. 



Algae. Marine : List by Hay in Trans. Royal Soc. Canada, 1887. 

 Fresh-water • Not at all studied ; a most attractive group. 



Animals. 



Mam nml in. List by Chamberlain in Bulletins III and X. 



Birds. List by Chamberlain in Bulletin I. 



Reptilia. No published list. 



Amphibia. List by Cox in Bulletin XVI. 



Fishes. List by Cox in Bulletin XIII. 



Insects. List of Butterflies in this Bulletin ; others to follow. 



( 'rustacea. No published lists. 



Worms. No published lists. 



MoUusca. Marine : List by Ganong in Bulletin VI. 



Land and Fresh- water : No published lists. 

 Echinodermata. Attempt at a Natural History of this group by Ganong in 



Bulletin VII. 

 Coelenttrata. No published lists. 

 Protozoa. No published lists. 



From the above it will appear that even preliminary lists have 

 been made of but a part of our groups, and that hardly any study at 

 all has been made of Distribution, Habits, or Adaptations. Here is 

 scope enough for many students for a long time to come. 



