1-2 EDWARD VII. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 22a A. 1902 



PREFATORY NOTE 

 By the Director. 



In the series of papers here presented, the notes embodied in the first paper deal 

 with certain salient features in the history and work of the Marine Biological Station 

 of Canada, founded in 1898, under authority of an Order in Council dated the 9th 

 of May of that year, and it is necessary only to mention in this place that during the 

 first two years of its existence the Station was located in Passamaquoddy Bay near St. 

 Andrews, New Brunswick, and that it was moved in the third year to the Straits of 

 Canso near the town of Canso, Nova Scotia. Part of the work done by the Staff during 

 the stay at St. Andrews is embodied in the papers now published. 



E. E. P. 



Ottaava, 1901. 



