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BULLETIN OF THE HATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Province, writes me, — “As you are well aware I have followed hunting 
for over fifty years. I have never, seen a track nor have I ever heard a 
wolf.” 
Mr. Arthur Pringle, of Stanley, who hunts in a more northerly region 
than Mr. Braithwaite, and has had also an extensive experience in our 
woods, writes me: “I have never seen any signs of the wolf in any part 
of New Brunswick that I have hunted in.” 
Mr. W. H. Venning, of Sussex, who has been interested in New Bruns- 
wick animals and woods life for some seventy years and who, since 1860, 
has been a good deal in the interior with guides and hunters, writes me he 
has never met with a wolf, nor has he received any authentic evidence as 
to their presence. 
Mr. Clarence Ward, of Saint John, a well-known student of local history, 
especially as revealed in old newspapers, writes me that he has not found 
any references in old New Brunswick papers to wolves other than those 
cited above. But he adds that in travelling by stage from Saint John to 
Fredericton in December, 1857, when near Darby Gillan’s, he heard in the 
hills a howling which he was told by the stage driver was ' that of wolves, 
and was further told that two or three had lately been seen on the same 
road. But since then Mr. Ward has not heard of their occurrence in the 
Province. 
Dr. B. S. Thorne, of Havelock, who has had a long interest in such 
matters, writes me that he remembers the occurrence of wolves in that 
section in his youth, their destructiveness to sheep in 1842, and a great wolf 
hunt organized by the settlers in 1846, since which time none have ever 
been known in that part of the Province. 
An observant correspondent, Mr. I. T. Hetherington, of Jenkins, Queens 
County, writes me that to his knowledge wolves were very abundant in 
1842, especially around Salmon Bay and Newcastle Creek, where they killed 
a number of sheep, and he himself, as a boy, heard their howling. He adds 
that a neighbor claims to have seen one about twenty years ago (viz., in 
1887), while Mr. Hetherington himself saw the tracks of one on Ryder Brook 
in 1888. 
The information sent me by another correspondent, Mr. P. H. Welsh, 
of Fulton Brook, Queens County, differs completely from all other data 
I have received. He writes that some thirty-three years ago, (viz. in 1874) 
he saw a wolf on a lumber road on Coy Brook (a branch of Salmon River), 
that the same winter he saw two others, of which he shot one through the 
shoulders, that in the same winter he saw the tracks of seven wolves chasing 
caribou on the Snowshoe Barren between Canaan and Lake Stream, and 
that as late as 1901 he saw one about two miles from his home. Taking 
this and Mr. Hetherington’s statement together, it seems possible that the 
wolf lingered in the .Salmon River region later than in Northern New Bruns- 
wick, but it is surprising that no other record of such persistence seems to 
•exist 
