1 6 (Bulletin of the Jhatural History Society. 
Maine, a much longer list (H), containing references to many 
Echinoderms fonnd at Eastjiort and in the Saint Croix River. 
In 1866, Professor A. E. Verrill published a very valuable 
paper entitled, — ‘‘ On the Polyps and Echinoderms of New 
England, with Descriptions of new Species,” (L). This 
corrects the synonymy up to date, and gives the range and 
habitat of every Echinoderm then known upon our coast. 
In 1871, a short paper by the same author in the Bulletin of 
the Essex Institute (N), referred to the Invertebrates found 
in the vicinity of Eastport and the character of the life in 
the different channels among the neighboring islands. It 
gives us quite a complete list of the Echinoderms of Eastport 
Harbor. 
In 1872, an exploring expedition of the United States Fish 
Commission had its headquarters at Eastport, and thoroughly 
examined the waters of the vicinity. The general results 
were published by Professor Verrill in a series of articles in 
the American Journal of Science (R), and scattered through 
them are a few references to the Echinodermata. They are, 
however, more important for the knowledge they give ns of, 
the depths, temperatures, tides, etc., of the region, — in a 
word, of its physiography. A complete report, embodying 
the results of his seven years’ work in the Bay of Fundy, is 
promised us by Professor Verrill. This will describe some 
new species and add to the Bay of Fundy fauna several not 
described in the following pages. Professor Verrill also refers 
frequently in his report on the Invertebrate animals of Vineyard 
Sound (Q), to the fauna of the Bay of Fundy. Nothing 
more seems to have been done upon the southern coast, until 
the writer in a short paper (X), read before this Society and 
published in its Bulletin No. IV., together with a note in 
Bulletin No. V., gave the result of some desultory observa- 
tions of his own upon the littoral and shallow-water forms of 
the inlets of the Charlotte County coast. 
So much for the Bay of Fundy waters. Our knowledge of 
the Echinoderm fauna of the “North Shore” is very scanty 
indeed, and what we have we owe entirely to the observations 
•of Mr. J. F. Whiteaves of the Canadian Geological Survey. 
