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ed entirely of pine timber, creosoted in Great Britain, and sent 

 out here. It has most effectively withstood the ravages of the 

 teredo, whilst all other piles in the neighborhood had to be re- 

 newed twice. 



Not satisfied with reports about its permanency, so far, I re- 

 quested that the Sydney and Louisburg Coal and Railway Com- 

 pany would have an examination made for the purpose of this 

 paper. I have to-day a telegram from Mr. D. J. Kennelly, Q. C, 

 managing director of that Company, in which he says : "Creos- 

 oted pier absolutely sound ; ten years erected. Timber not creos- 

 oted twice renewed." 



One of the objects of this paper is, firstly, to point out the ne- 

 cessity which exists for a creosoting apparatus to be placed in 

 Nova Scotia, somewhere in the region of the Teredo's most active 

 operations ; and, secondly, that experiments be conducted by 

 some responsible parties, as to the best means to adopt to arrest 

 the ravages of the Limnoria Lignorum. 



Considering the interests at stake and the great annual loss to 

 the Department of Public Works, Canada, from these destructive 

 animals, one would think that something should be done in the 

 public interests, by at least investigating the matter, and with 

 the view of proper remedial measures being taken so far as prac- 

 ticably possible, to mitigate or prevent their ravages in the 

 future. 



Art. VII. — Shore Birds of Nova Scotia. By Bernard Gilpin, 



A. B., M. D., M. R. C. S. 



(Read April 10th, 1882.) 

 In studying the immense flocks of what are called Shore Birds, 

 which yearly appear during July, August and September of each 

 year upon the flats of the Bay of Fundy, St. Mary's Bay, the 

 Tuskets, and Digby Basin, in Nova Scotia, we must consider 

 them as migratory birds, breeding, with few exceptions, in the 

 Polar regions, and now returning with their young to warmer 

 latitude-;, reaching even the Gulf of Mexico, and thus passing our 



