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and round into Ungava Bay to Fort Chimo. The mollusca were re- 
ported upon by Dr. W. H. Dall, in the proceedings of the U. S. National 
Museum, IX, 1886. Professor W. F. Ganong, a native of New Bruns- 
wick, from 1884 to 1888 collected Mollusca, Echinoderms, etc., in the 
rich waters of southern New Brunswick, and published a number of 
papers in the N. B. Natural History Society’s Bulletins, and issued a 
popular little volume on the “ Economic Mollusca of Acadia.” The 
various Dominion Government expeditions to Hudson’s Bay, though 
their primary object has been in recent years to determine the conditions 
of navigation, have always done some marine zoological work, and inter- 
esting collections have been made in 1894, 1897-8 and 1899, and the 
recent expedition of the “ Neptune” under Mr. Low, the head of the 
Geological Survey, has similarly added to our knowledge of these cold 
northern waters. While I must omit special mention of work confined 
within the limits of a single group, I cannot forbear mentioning the really 
splendid contributions which Mr. Lawrence Lambe for so many years 
has made to Poriferan Zoology, the minute descriptions, and above all 
the exquisite plates, are a source of pride to every Canadian, and form a 
worthy basis for future studies of our Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific 
sponges. The papers on fishes, ete., by Dr. M. H. Perley, whose first 
reports were made to the Legislature of New Brunswick, in 1852, and 
those hy Mr. T. F. Knight, in 1866, to the Nova Scotia Government, 
were largely compilations, though valuable for their purpose, but the 
Rev. John Ambrose’s papers on N. S. fishes, published by the N. S. 
Institute of Natural Science, and Dr. J. B. Gilpin’s similar accounts 
of the Gaspereau, and other economic fishes, published by the same 
society, 1864-65, 1865-66 and 1866-67, are of peculiar interest. Mr. 
Harry Piers, of Halifax, has added to our knowledge of the fishes, and 
Dr. Philip Cox, of Chatham, N.B., has done valuable work in the smaller 
fishes, chiefly fresh-water species, though in 1895 he made a special 
investigation of the smelt and striped bass, under the auspices of the 
Marine and Fisheries Department. 
Dr. Whiteaves’ Deep Sca Researches. 
But there is one omission, which on the principle of leaving the 
best to the last, I must now supply, viz., the laborious researches of that 
brilliant veteran in marine biology, as in fossil biology or paleontology, 
Dr. Joseph Frederick Whiteaves. Dr. Whiteaves began his famous 
dredging expeditions in 1867, just 40 years ago, and in that year and in 
the second succeeding year (1869) made collections inside Cape Gaspé, in 
the Basin, and outside the Cape, off Cap des Rosiers, the results being 
published in the Canadian Naturalist. The Natural History Society 
