18 ^Bulletin of the Natural History Society. 
Rev. 0. Atkinson (1811), C. L. Hatheway (1816), Abraham 
Gesner * (1847), W. H. Perley (1852 and 1851), and Alex. 
Monro (1855). 
The first section of New Brunswick to be systematically 
studied by a naturalist, was the region about Grand Manan. 
William Stimpson, afterwards Dr. Stimpson, spent three 
months in the summer of 1852 at work upon the study of 
its marine invertebrate fauna. The results of that work, 
including the descriptions of many new genera and species, 
were published in 1854 in Vol. VI. of the Smithsonian Contri- 
butions to Knowledge. The publication of this list marks 
the beginning of the scientific study as well as of the scientific 
knowledge of the invertebrates of this Province. An earlier 
paper, by the same author, contains references to species found 
at Grand Manan and Eastport, but they are incidental, the 
paper not dealing specially with the fauna of these two places. 
The next work of importance in which occur references to 
the mollusca of the southern coast is the second edition of 
4 ‘Gould’s Invertebrate of Massachusetts,” an illustrated edition 
comprising the mollusca only, published in 1870. The first 
edition of this work, published in 1841, contains no references 
to New Brunswick. 
We owe much, too, to the investigations and dredgings of 
the United States Pish Commission. The latter have added 
very greatly to our knowledge of the distribution of species 
in the Bay of Fundy, particularly in the region about Grand 
Manan and Eastport. The various papers by Professor A. E. 
Verriil, embodying these results in so far as they relate to our 
waters, are mentioned at length below. 
Of the molluscan fauna of the Bay Ohaleur and Gulf of St. 
Lawrence coasts we have less knowledge. A paper published 
in the “ Canadian Naturalist” in 1869, by Robert Bell, 
contains a few references to New Brunswick. This, together 
* Upon this subject a note of Gesner’s (in his “ New Brunswick ”) is misleading. 
He says: “Of shells the number collected is 131; Crustacea 27. These have been 
arranged according to the system of Lamarck by T. A. Greene, Esq., of New 
Bedford, and appear in the catalogue of the animals of Massachusetts. ’’ Upon 
consulting this list, which was published in the second edition of Hitchcock’s 
■Zoology of Massachusetts (1835), it will be found that it includes the mollusca of the 
whole New England coast, and is not a list of the shells of New Brunswick, as a 
•reader of Gesner's work would naturally infer. 
