PROCEEDINGS FOR 1901 XXV 
hostility among Canadians who have no wish to perpetuate memories 
of past conflicts with their great neighbours, towards whom they have 
in these days such kindly feelings. 
19. THE NoBEL BEQUEST. 
The Council have received from the Honourable Secretary of State 
for Canada the statutes and regulations with regard to the bequest made 
by the late Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel of Sweden, for the encourage- 
ment of science and literature, and the welfare of humanity. The 
amount available under the bequest for distribution annually ‘is.about 
£40,000 sterling, and the first distribution of prizes will take place on 
the 10th of December next. The sum will be divided into five equal 
parts; one to be given to:the person who shall have made the most 
important invention in physical science; another to the person who 
shall have made the most valuable discovery in.chemistry, or brought 
the study of that science to the greatest perfection; the third to the 
author of the most signal discovery in physiology or medicine; the 
fourth to the most remarkable literary work in am idealistic sense; 
finally, the fifth part to any one who shall have done the most for the 
brotherhood of peoples, for.the suppression or reduction of permanent 
armies, and the encouragement and establishment of Peace Congresses. 
The prizes will be allotted:. For physics and chemistry, by the Swedish 
Academy of Science; for physiology and medicine, by the Carolin 
Institute of Stockholm; for literature by the Academy of Stockholm, 
finally, for the work of peace by a commission of five members elected 
by the Norwegian Storthing. 
20. MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION OF CANADA. 
The success of the Marine Biological Station during the first year 
of its existence (1899), established for it its position as the centre of 
original marine and fishery researches in the Dominion of Canada, and 
the band of distinguished workers who conducted laborious and valuable 
scientific investigations in its work-rooms, conferred upon it, from the 
commencement, a status which many marine laboratories in other 
countries have attained only after many years of struggling effort and 
slow progress. The waters of our Atlantic seaboard presented a field 
full of promise, and the fishery and technical problems which it offered 
were at once attacked by trained and experienced scientists, who had 
heretofore been compelled to leave Canadian boundaries to conduct 
researches in foreign laboratories and scientific stations. 
