1868 and 1870. — In both of these years Professor Verrill collected at Grand 

 Manan Island, in the Bay of Fundy. In 1868 he was assisted by Pro- 

 fessor S. I. Smith, H. E. Webster and Rev, Geo. A. Jackson, and in 

 1870 by 3Ir. Oscar Harger and C. H. Dwindle. 



Professor Verrill's later explorations in Canadian waters were 

 carried on under the auspices of the United States Fish Commission, 

 and will be referred to under that heading. 



Whiteaves, J. F. 



1867 and 1869. — During each of these years the writer dredged at many 

 localities in Gaspe Bay and off Cap des Rosiers (Cape Rosier) .light- 

 house and village. Lists of the Mollusca, tfec, obtained in these dredg- 

 ings were published in the fourth and fifth volumes of the new series of 

 the Canadian Naturalist. 



1871, 1872 and 1873. — Facilities having been atibrded by the Department 

 of Marine and Fisheries of the Dominion Government, for these three 

 years, dredging operations were carried on in each, in the deepest parts 

 of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (from 100 to 313 fathom^^) ata long distance 

 from shore, at many localities to the north, south-east and 

 south of the Island of Anticosti. Under the same auspices, also, in, 

 1871, dredging was done at several places on the north shore of the 

 Gulf, from Point des Monts to the Mingan Islands ; in 1872, off Perce 

 and at the Magdalen Islands ; and, in 1873, off Cap d'Espoir (Cape Des- 

 pair) and Grand Pabou, on the Bradelle and Orphan Banks, at several 

 localities between Prince Edward and Cape Breton islands, and through- 

 out Northumberland Strait, on both sides. 



Preliminary reports on the species obtained in these dredgings were 

 published in the Reports of the Department of Marine and Fisheries 

 for 1871, 1872 and 1873 ; in volumes vi. and vii. of the new series of 

 the Canadian Naturalist; in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History for November, 1872 (Ser. iv., vol. x.) ; and in the American 

 Journal of Science for March, 1874, 



United States Fish Commission, 



1872. — Under the auspices of the U. S, Fish Commissioner, collections were 

 made in the Bay of Fundy, at Grand Manan Island, and a series of 

 dredgings were made first at Halifax and the Le Have Bank, Nova 

 Scotia, and afterward in the region of St. George's Banks and the 

 adjacent waters, on board the coast survey SS. Bache. Professor 

 Verrill had general charge of the dredging operations and the collection 

 of invertebrates, but during the first cruise of the Bache, the dredgings 

 were in charge of Professor S. I, Smith and Mr, Oscar Harger. 



