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Northampton, Mass., has been and is doing much in the interests of New Brunswick history. Prof. Ganong is of Loyalist stock. He is a native of St. John and one of number of the graduates of the University of New Brunswick who have achieved distinction. He is an A. M. and Ph. D., of his alma mater, an A. B. of Harvard and Ph.D. of Munich. He has been instructor in botany at Harvard and is now Professor of Botany at Smith College. His contributions to various learned societies on topics of history and natural history have been numerous and of great value. He has for some years been collecting material for a history of New Brunswick on a magnificent scale and has gathered a large amount of matter in this line. His "Plan for a General History" appears in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1895, and since then he has contributed two important monographs to the same body. One of these, the "Place-Nomenclature of New Brunswick," is a marvel of industry and research. His latest paper is on the Cartography of the province, to which reference is made elsewhere. In the current number of The Magazine Dr. Ganong deals with the much vexed question of the site of Fort LaTour, reiterating his opinion that it was on the eastern side of St. John harbor.

Mr. James Hannay stands to the front as the historian of Acadia, and is widely known as one of the most ready and pleasing writers in Canada. Whatever may be the individual views of his treatment of the question of the expatriation of the French, his "History of Acadia" must be recognized as a book of absorbing interest, written in an exceedingly graceful style. At the time it was written there were not the facilities which exist at the present day for obtaining information on the Acadian question, and the work of Mr. Hannay was done amid difficulties which were