Preliminary List of the Plants of New Brunsieich. 9 
The next notice appeared in 1869, when Mr. G. F. Matthew pub- 
lished a valuable and thoughtful paper “ On the Occurrence of Arctic 
and Western Plants in Continental Acadia.” The paper was read 
before the Society, April 13, 1869, and published in the June number 
of Canadian Naturalist. 
In 1876, Dr. L. W. Bailey and Edward Jack, Esq., prepared and 
published a “Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods and Minerals of 
New Brunswick,” for use at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel- 
phia. It embodies a large amount of valuable information from an 
economic standpoint, and gives the most reliable account of the uses 
of our forest trees that has yet been presented to the public. 
No further references to the subject occur till January, 1879, when 
the Provincial Agricultural Report for the previous year appeared 
with a “List of New Brunswick Plants” by the present writer. 
The List was subsequently published in the Educational Circidar. 
It gives the names of 1,074 species, 743 of which are Phanerogams 
and the remainder Cryptogams. All of these the writer had him- 
self collected or seen in the possession of others. The publication 
awakened the interest of the students of Botany, and specimens of 
rare or new plants were forwarded to him from different parts of the 
Province. His own residence in Fredericton in 1878-9 gave him an 
opportunity of securing some new material, and in the Report of the 
following year (1880) he published “Additions to the List of New 
Brunswick Plants,” accompanied by an article on the “ Advantages 
resulting from a Knowledge of the Flora of our Province.” 
In 1882 the New Brunswick Natural History Society published 
the first number of its Annual Bulletin, containing the Report of the 
Botanical Committee of the Society, and a List of the species dis- 
covered since the publication of the previous paper. The two suc- 
ceeding Bulletins contain additional Lists bringing up the number of 
species discovered to the close of 1883. In Bulletin No. 2 appeared 
an interesting paper on the “Botany of the Upper St. John” by 
Mr. G. U. Hay, who has devoted considerable attention to an inves- 
tigation of the plants of the St. John and its tributaries. Since his 
removal to Ontario (1880) the writer has received specimens of 
many new species from botanic friends, and by their kind aid has 
compiled the present Catalogue as a contribution to the advancement 
of Botanic Science in his native Province. His aim has been in the 
compilation to exclude every species of which he had not seen a 
