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1858. — Dredged for a few days in Gaspe Bay, in August. Many of the 

 si^ecies collected at this locality are enumerated or described in three 

 papers contributed to the " Canadian Naturalist and Geologist " for 

 1858 and 1860, (vols. iii. and v.). The first of these is entitled "A 

 Week in Gaspe ; " the second " On Sea Anemones and Hydroid 

 Polyps from the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; " and the third, " On the Tubi- 

 colous Marine Worms of the Gulf of St. Lawrence." 



1859 to 1876. — Dredged in the Gulf and mouth of the River St. Lawrence, 

 from Gaspe to Kamouraska and Murray Bay, including various places 

 on the north and south shores of the river. 



1871. — The Report on the Geological Structure and Mineral Resources of 

 Prince Edward Island, by Sir J. W. Dawson and Dr. B. J. Harring- 

 ton, contains a list of the marine shells of that island, collected by Mr. 

 W. B. Dawson. 



1876-1882. — Made his headquarters at Little Metis, and dredged above 

 and below that place nearly every summer until 1882, and made some 

 collections in later years. His chief object was to ascertain how many 

 of the species found in the pleistocene clays and sands still live in the 

 St. Lawrence estuary, and what variety of changes, if any, they have 

 experienced in the intervening time. 



No separate lists of the species dredged during these years have 

 been published, and much of the material collected has yet to be 

 studied. Still, in his papers on Canadian pleistocene fossils, and 

 especially in his latest list of those fossils, in the "Canadian Ice Age," 

 published in 1893, there are many references to recent species. 



Willis, J. R. 



1850 to 1863 or a little later. — Collected mollusoa, &c., on the Atlantic 

 coast of Nova Scotia (especiall}- from the fishing banks off Halifax, and 

 at Sable Island) and published a list of them, in 1862, in the eighth 

 volume of Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. His 

 latest and most important list of Nova Scotia shells, privately printed 

 in November, 1863, is reprinted in vol. vii., pt. 4 (1890) of the Trans- 

 actions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Science. 



Stimpson, Dr. W. 

 1852. — Dredged and otherwise collected for three months at Grand Manan 

 Island and its vicinity, in the Bay of Fundy. His " Synopsis of the 

 Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan," published in 1853, which is 

 based on these collections, is by far the most important and compre- 

 hensive contribution to the literature of the marine zoology of eastern 

 Canada that had appeared up to that date, and it is still indispensable 

 to the student of this subject. 



