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which excited the wonder of a party of British and foreign 

 scientists, who paid a visit to this British Columbia Station in 

 September, 1909, at the close of the meeting of the British 

 Association in Winnipeg. The party included famous men 

 from the British Museum, from Cambridge University, Copen- 

 hagen, Sheffield, Leeds, London and other universities, and like 

 President Starr Jordan, Professor C. H. Gilbert, and Dr. Barton 

 Evermann, who made short visits to the station, they declared 

 it to be one of the best marine laboratories on the continent. 

 The location is very beautiful, but the rich marine life in the 

 waters of Departure Bay, and above all, the enthusiasm and 

 profound knowledge of the curator himself, delighted all scientific 

 visitors. 



Those privileged to go with him on dredging trips will not 

 soon forget his scientific devotion. The writer sailed with him, 

 in 1906, on the Dominion cruiser "Kestrel," along the British 

 Columbia coast from Vancouver to Alaska, including Queen 

 Charlotte Islands and Quatsino Sound in the cruise, and at every 

 point where hauls of the dredge were made myriads of strange 

 creatures were brought up from the depths below. From 

 morning to night Mr. Taylor sorted out and named the speci- 

 mens, usually working on deck till long after dark, aided by the 

 light of a ship's lantern. He had such an unusual knowledge 

 of marine zoologv that he could name without difficulty a vast 

 proportion of the hosts of molluscs, echinoderms, zoophytes, 

 etc., and very fine collections resulted. He was for some time 

 at work on a list of small shore fishes, so abundant in British 

 Columbia, but the list was never completed. It included many 

 new forms. One named Asemichthys taylori has been described 

 in a paper, now being printed by the King's Printer, Ottawa, 

 the author being the eminent United States ichthyologist, 

 Professor C. H. Gilbert, Stanford University, who says, "I take 

 pleasure in naming this interesting species for its discoverer, 

 Rev. G. W. Taylor, Nanaimo, B.C." A list of British Columbia 

 Copepod Parasites is also now in course of publication by the 

 Biological Board, the result of Mr. Taylor's assiduous collecting, 

 and the author, Professor C. B. Wilson, the well-known specialist, 

 says that eight out of fourteen species are wholly new to science. 

 Mr. Taylor made a study of Pacific Crustacea, and completed 

 a report, to be issued shortly, by the Biological Board, with the 

 title " Preliminary List of One Hundred and Twenty-nine Species 

 of British Columbia Decapod Crustaceans." In the report of 

 the British Columbia Fisheries Commission, of which Mr. Taylor 

 was appointed a member by the Dominion Government, he 

 gave a list of no less than thirty species of edible molluscs 

 occurring on the British Columbia; coast, of which three only, 



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