n05E5 H. PERLEY 



As a memento of the earlier years of this Society a vignette 

 of the late Moses H. Perley is inserted in this Bulletin. Mr. 

 Perley was one of its founders, and for several years the first 

 Vice-President. He took an active interest in its welfare, read 

 papers at its meetings, and gave several contributions to its 

 museum, — but an untimely death deprived the Society of his 

 valuable services, not many years after its institution. 



Mr. Perley wrote reports on the Fisheries of New Bruns- 

 wick, addressed to the legislature of New Brunswick, 1849-51, 

 which for many years remained the authority for information on 

 this important subject, and is quoted and referi-ed to in Dr. Cox's 

 article on the Fishes of New Brunswick issued in this Bulletin. 



Besides his reports on the fisheries, Mr. Perley also wrote a 

 very useful little " Hand-Book of Information for Emigrants to 

 New Brunswick," which contained an account of the cliuiate, 

 forests, fisheries, geology and mineral resources, topography, and 

 other useful information. This was published in London (1857) 

 in aid of immigration, for which he was agent, or ofiicer, at that 

 time. 



Known as an authority on British North American fisheries, 

 Mr. Perley was appointed British commissioner for settling the 

 b(jundary along the Atlantic coast of British America within 

 which only British subjects have the right to fish. It was while 

 engaged on the work of this commission that Mr. Perley died 

 suddenly at Forteau, on the coast of Labrador, in August, 1862. 



Mr. Perley was a native of New Brunswick, born at Mauger- 

 ville, 31st December, 1804. He was educated at St. John, 

 N. B., called to the bar in 1830, and practiced law for some 

 yeai's in that city. Of his family only one, Henry F. Perley, 

 C. E., of Ottawa, now survives. 



