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Mr. Samuel W. Kain has kindly assisted in making the first number more complete by contributing many of the notes included under the title of "Writers and Workers."

Dr. George Stewart, of Quebec, was to have had a paper in this number, but owing to special demands upon his time of late he has been obliged to defer it until the August number.

In addition to the names of contributors announced in the prospectus issued some weeks ago, The Magazine has pleasure in stating that contributions may be looked for in future numbers from Mr. George Johnson, Dominion Statistician, Ottawa, Mr. John T. Bulmer, bibliophile and historical writer, Halifax, Mr. S. D. Scott, M. A., journalist and president of the N. B. Historical Society, Mr. W. P. Dole, M. A., and Mr. W. G. MacFarlane, M. A., journalist and bibliographer, St. John.

The Maritime Provinces occupy no mean place in the fields of science and literature, as will be seen by the following incomplete notes of what has been done of late either by those who are claimed as sons of this part of Canada or by others who are interested in our history and resources. Further reference will be made later to some of the work of which there can now be only a brief mention.

Prof. Loring W. Bailey was engaged by the Dominion Geological Survey, last year, to make an examination of the mineral resources of New Brunswick. His report is now in press and will soon be published. The recently issued transactions of the Royal Society of Canada contain a paper by him on the Bay of Fundy Trough in American Geological History. Prof. Bailey