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the Spanish mackerel, or chub mackerel [Scomber coltas, Gmelin), 

 resembling- and yet unlike the common mackerel, was captured on 

 several occasions, while the interesting Scomberomorus niaculatiis, 

 Mitchell, usually called Spanish mackerel by United States writers, 

 was also secured. Neither species is generally regarded as 

 occurring so far north as Canso. Specimens oS. Ly codes, a curious 

 eel-pout, probably esmarki, were ^o\ at St. Andrews, which was 

 surprising, and also at Canso, both being an entirely new records. 

 On many occasions enormous skulpins of a rich orange colour 

 were caught, quite different in size, and other features, from 

 Hefni/ripterus aniericanus, which they most closely approached. 

 A ponderous sea-wolf was also added to the collection of the 

 Station. ^t was not Anan ichas lupus, beine of a dirty lead 

 colour, and in dentition far less formidable than the common 

 brown or yellow, barred species. An old naturalist says of 

 A. lupus: "Its ferocious-looking cat-like head, and exceedingly 

 coarse skin, covered with slime, gave it a hideous appearance" ; 

 but when he adds : " The voracious and savage character of the 

 wolf-fish ... is apparent from its formidable array of teeth, 

 and its vicious propensities," the description does not so aptly 

 apply to the large specimen examined at Canso, in which the teeth 

 were far less prominent. It no doubt belonged to the Arctic 

 s^ec'xes, Anarric has lati fro US. Amongst other noteworthy captures 

 was a swordfish [Xiphias gladius L.) which exhibited several para- 

 sites [Petiella) of unusual size projecting like long dark whip- 

 lashes from the skin of the fish, each provided with a brush or 

 feather-like terminal appendage. Amongst the invertebrates col- 

 lected were many Protozoans and Annulates which may turn out 

 to be new to Canada, and possibly new to science, so that the 

 faunistic work has already assumed an important character. 



It is exceedingly interesting to learn from the Director's report 

 that the tables have on the whole, been fully occupied during the 

 three years of the Station's work. That shows, if such evidence 

 were needed, that Canada has no lack of able and original workers, 

 whose brains and talents have found congenial opportunities, 

 hitherto, in the biological stations and laboratories of the United 

 States. Most of the American Stations give lectures and elemen- 

 tary instruction, and demand fees ; but the Canadian Station is 



