1902] Biological Station of Canada. 47 



the action of a Committee of the British Association appointed in 

 i8g6. During the sittings of that august scientific body, in 

 Toronto, in 1897, this Committee, under the chairmanship of 

 Professor Louis C, Miall, President of the Biology section, formu- 

 lated a scheme, and chose a Canadian Board consisting of Pro- 

 fessors Prince, Macoun, A. B. Macallum, E. W. MacBride, T. Wes- 

 ley Mills, Dr. Thistleton Dyer (of the Royal Gardens, Ke\y) and 

 Professor Penhallow (Secretary). These gentlemen organised an 

 influential deputation who waited upon Sir Louis Davies, then 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and in iSgS a Parliamentary 

 grant was made, resulting in the erection and equipment of a 

 Biological Station which commenced work at St. Andrews, New 

 Brunswick in 1899. Prior to the movement inaugurated by the 

 British Association, the scheme had been warmly advocated, first 

 by Professor Prince himself in his report as Commissioner in 1893,* 

 and by Professor Knight, of Kingston, two years later. f 

 In 1896 the Royal Society discussed the matter and adopted a 

 resolution (in Section IV) relating to the founding of such a 

 marine biological station, the proposal being made by Dr. T. J. 

 W. Burgess, of Montreal. 



In the summer of 1899 scientific researches were actively com- 

 menced at St. Andrews, N.B., in the building described by Pro- 

 fessor Prince as " a neat one-story structure of wood, well-lighted 

 from the roof and sides, and somewhat resembling a Pullman car, 

 with a row of eight large windows along each side," and having 

 a total length of 50 feet. Besides a spacious main laboratory con- 

 taining workers' tables, aquaria and glass tanks supplied with 

 fresh and saltwater, wash-basins, bottle racks, bookshelves, etc., 

 there are six small rooms for the accommodation of the Director 

 and staff, for the attendants, and for chemical and scientific 

 apparatus, books, memoirs, etc. The nucleus of a valuable 

 library has been already collected, including "the fifty magnificent 

 volumes of the report of H. M. S. Challenger^ a munificent gift, 

 obtained through the kind offices of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Cham- 

 berlain, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the 



*See 26th Ann. Rep. Mar. & Fish. Dept., 1893. Special Appendix by 

 the Commissioner of Fisheries, pp. clxxxviii cxcv. 



fProc. Royal Soc. of Can., 1895, pp. xiii and xiv. 



