The Echino dermal a of dNew (Brvmswick, 15 
the Starfish and Sea-spider ; the latter is the name by which 
GorgoncepUalus Agassiziiy or the Basket-fish, is known to the 
fishermen, and it may have been to it he referred, or it may 
have been to some species of crab. Gesner, in his ^‘Indus- 
trial Resonrces of Nova Scotia,” in 1849, gives among the 
“marine and fresh water fishes of Nova Scotia, New Bruns- 
wick and Prince Edward Island,” Asterias rubens. Starfish, 
but no others. Neither Perley nor Adams, in their writings 
on our Zoology, mention any of the Echinoderrnata. 
The first paper by a naturalist, dealing with this region, is 
by William Stimpson (afterwards Dr. Stimpson), in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. IV., 
1851, (B).* In it he describes before the Society the results 
of a visit to Eastport, mentions the Invertebrates he found 
there, and gives brief notes upon several species of Echino- 
derms. He noticed the northern character of tlie fauna of 
this region, and seems to have been the first to liave done so. 
He explained it by the depth of the water and the mixing up 
by the strong tides of the colder bottom with the warmer 
surface water, the temperature of which could therefore never 
become hig-h. The prevalence of fogs, too, he thought kept the 
sun’s heat from exerting its full power upon the water. Three 
years later, in 1854, the same naturalist ])ublished the most 
important work which has yet appeared on the Invertebrates 
of New Brunswick, his “Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata 
of Grand Manan: or the Region about the Mouth of the Bay 
of Fundy, New Brunswick,” (D). Dr. Stimpson spent three 
months of the summer of 1852 dredging around Grand Manan, 
finding there many new species of Invertebrates. In the 
Synopsis he mentions twenty-five good species of Echinoderms, 
three of theni new. This work is an annotated list, giving 
descriptions of new species only. 
In 1861, Mr. C. B. Fuller published in the Proceedings of 
the Portland Natural History Society (G), some notes on the 
Invertebrates of Eastport Harbor, and in 1863, in the second 
report on the Natural History and Geology of the State of 
* See the Bibliography following. 
