NATURAL HISTORY AHD PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 35 
Summarizing now all the available evidence, and remembering 
that the Wolf is a conspicuous and dreaded animal whose pre- 
sence is always promptly made known, it seems clear that it 
has ever been of sporadic appearance and irregular abundance 
in New Brunswick. It must have been rare, if not absent, 
during the earlier periods of our history; it came into some notice 
about 1774, again about 1795, again after 1818, while about 
1840 it became somewhat abundant, reaching its culmination 
about 1845-46. After this it steadily diminished in numbers 
until, in 1867, it had become practically extinct throughout 
most of the Province, though it may possibly have persisted 
until much later in the Salmon River region in Queens County, 
and a stray individual may even have entered the Province 
elsewhere. 
There is one other reference to the Wolf in New Brunswick 
which is of a different character. President Roosevelt, in an 
article in Everybody’s Magazine for June last, condemned, and 
very correctly, as impossible and absurd, the central idea in one 
of Mr. C. G. D. Roberts’ stories dealing with Wolves and Lynxes. 
In an interview given to a newspaper reporter in New York on 
June 15, and published in a number of newspapers the next 
day, Mr. Roberts defended his story and added that “he wrote 
of the animals of New Brunswick (viz. Wolves and Lvnxes) 
■with the habits of which I am thoroughly familiar. The facts 
are based on long and careful observations.” The evidence 
above given shows that the Wolf had vanished, except as an 
excessively rare, if not doubtful, constituent of our fauna, before 
1867. Mr. Roberts was born in 1860. 
111. — On the Fundamental Construction of the Central 
Highlands of*New Brunswick. 
Read December 3, 1907. 
A year ago I laid before this Society a description, based 
in part upon earlier Notes and in part upon new studies, of the 
Central Plateau of New Brunswick, the nucelar-axial and most 
striking part of the Central Highlands of the Province. I 
reserve the paper until after further study, but I wish to state 
