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made, with other materials, formed the basis of his first published paper. 
Tt appeared, as I mention elsewhere, in 1870, and dealt with those 
minute foraminiferal forms which later, in 1880, he sought for in 
tha prolific surface waters of the Pacific. Dr. Dawson’s phials of 
€ Plankton” from Hecate Straits unfortunately perished in a fire in 
the West Parliamentary Block, where they were placed temporarily. 
U. S. Investigations and Others. 
United States’ workers have been assiduous in investigating our 
Canadian seas, and happily there is room for all! Dr. A. 8. Packard, 
Jr., dredged in 1860 east of Belle Isle Straits, and a list of the species 
secured appeared in the Canadian Naturalist, Dec. 1863. He extended 
his researches in 1864 and included the waters from a hundred miles 
inside the Straits of Belle Isle to Hopedale over three hundred miles up 
the Labrador coast on the open Atlantic. The Boston Society 
of Natural History published his Invertebrate Fauna of La- 
brador, in 1867, embracing both expeditions, 1860 and 1864, 
and a collection made by Professor A. EH. Verrill, in 1861, off 
Anticosti and Mingan. Professor Verrill carried on dredging 
work in the Grand Manan (Bay of Fundy) waters, in 1868 and 
1870, and continued them in 1872, 1877, and 1883, latterly under the 
United States Fish Commission. The La Have Banks and St. George’s 
Banks were examined, as weil as the deep waters south-east of Halifax, 
and off the western Nova Scotia coast, and in 1883 the SS. “ Albatross ” 
dredged at twenty different stations in depths of 49 to 130 fathoms, 
and the valuable and well-known reports in the volumes of the United 
States Fish Commission, the Connecticut Academy, the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, and the \United States 
National Museum, contain the results. In 1873 the British warship 
“ Challenger,” in her world-famous scientific cruise, included 31 stations 
off the Nova Scotia coast, and secured some notable specimens of the 
boreal Antedon quadrata and Antedon Eschrichtti on the La Have 
Bank. In 1876 Dr. J. A. Verkruzen made a collection of mollusca, 
etc., in Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, publishing a small pamphlet 
in St. John’s, Nfld., and three further accounts in Germany. The 
year following saw Dr. Matthew Jones’ list of N. S. mollusks appear 
in the Trans. N. S. Institute of Natural Science, and Dr. W. A. Stearns, 
in the same year, dredged along the Labrador coast for about 120 miles 
from Forteau Bay, Belle Isle Straits, to Square Island, and his lists 
were published in the Proceedings of the U. 8. National Museum, the 
sixth volume. Mr. L. M. Turner made collections of marine animals 
along ‘the extensive shore from Hamilton Bay north to Cape Chidley, 
