Marine Mollusca of Mew (Brunswick. ^ 19 
with three or four papers by J. F. Whiteaves, treating only 
incidentally of our waters, are all that have been published 
upon the fauna of the northern coast. Mr. Whiteaves has 
dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but by no means 
zoologically, even if geographically, can the latter be consid- 
ered to be among the coast waters of New Brunswick. So 
different is the character of the life in Northumberland 
Straits and along the coast to and in the Bay Chaleur, that 
there is a natural separation of these waters from the Gulf of 
St. Lawrence proper, which gives a natural zoological division 
between the former, which certainly are coast waters of New 
Brunswick, and the latter which is not. 
By New Brunswick students, practically nothing has been 
done. Mr. G. F. Matthew and Rev. 0. H. Paisley have 
published lists of shells from the post-pliocene deposits of this 
Province; but aside from a popular and very incomplete paper 
by the writer, published in Bulletin No. IV. of the Natural 
History Society of New Brunswick, nothing has appeared 
upon the living forms. Very little is as yet known of the 
distribution and relative abundance of the species upon our 
•coasts, and an attractive field here lies open to our young 
students of natural history. 
The general character of the fauna of the southern coast is 
strongly arctic, though it is by no means of an extreme type. 
The great tides of the Bay of Fundy causing, as they must, 
strong currents, sweep the cold water of the northern Atlantic 
into the Bay, over amongst the Grand Manan Islands and 
•against the New Brunswick and Maine coasts. The deep 
waters of this region have no chance to become warm, the 
constant influx and circulation of cold currents keeping the 
temperature always reduced. 
But upon the “ North Shore” there is a very different 
condition of things. The waters are shallow and the tides 
slight. There is no great influx of cold water and the waters 
easily become warm and retain their warmth. These condi- 
tions are favourable to the existence there of a more southern 
fauna than can live in the Bay of Fundy, and we find as a 
matter of fact that all along the coast in Northumberland 
