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tion in 1856, which first indicated the richness of the British Columbia 
marine fauna. He had, in conjunction with Gould already treated the 
subject in the Zool. Soe. Proc. of London in 1856, and he followed these 
contributions by many others, until his paper on the Acmæidæ of 
Vancouver, issued in 1866, in the American Journal of Conchology, 
Vol. IT. 
Mr. J. K. Lord’s faunistic list, published after the conclusion of 
the Pacific Boundary €ommission 1863, is useful but fragmentary, though 
Kennerley’s collection made at the same time is important. Mr. John 
Richardson, in 1874 and 1875, collected on behalf of the Dominion 
Geological Survey, at various points from Victoria Harbour to Deep 
Bay, 90 miles further north, and he included Burrard Inlet. This 
collection with one privately made by Mr. R. Middleton, of Victoria, © 
was examined by Dr. Whiteaves, who had the aid of certain specialists, 
and the first list including 7 hydroids, 2 alcyonarians, 10 echinoderms, 
3 polyzoans, 5 brachiopods, 83 mollusca, 19 crustaceans, and was pub- 
lished in the Canadian Naturalist, Vol. VIII, 1878. Judge J. G. Swan, 
of Port Townsend, U.S., continued the faunistic work in B. C. waters 
and in Puget Sound; but to Dr. Dall we are chiefly indebted for our 
knowledge of the Pacific marine fauna from the time of the appearance 
of his catalogue of Bering’s Sea and Pacific shells (Proc. Calif. Acad. 
Sci. Vol. 5) in 1874 down to the present time. Dr. Whiteaves has from 
time to time added to the list, his “ Invertebrata of Vancouver Island ” 
in the Royal Society Transactions 1886 being important. It was in 
1886 that Inspector Thomas Mowat made a tour of fisheries inspection 
along the coast to Queen Charlotte Islands, and reported on the cod and 
deep-sea fishery resources. In 1893 Professor John Macoun made fine 
collections of marine forms at Comox, Sooke, Nanaimo, etc., but a most 
notable piece of work is Dr. F. C. Newcombe’s Report on the Marine 
Shells of British Columbia (Nat. Hist. Soc. of B.C., Victoria, 1893). 
Dr. Newcombe has done splendid work, especially in the marine 
mollusks, in studying which he dredged over a very extensive area along 
the British Columbia coast and published remarkably comprehensive 
lists. But a Fellow of this Society occupies no second place as a marine 
investigator in Pacific waters.! His collections are indeed an indication 
of what an accomplished zoologist, occupied with many other duties can do 
in this Eldorado of marine biology. Nor must John Fannin’s work be 
forgotten; British Columbia has had few more enthusiastic lovers of 
nature. He was much more than a museum curator and taxidermist. 
The specialists of the United States have long recognized the peerless 


*The Rey. George W. Taylor, of Wellington, near Nanaimo, B.C., who 
published the first of a number of lists in 1894. (R. S. Trans.). 
