XXVI ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
During the second year .of its work (1900), the success which 
marked its initial stage was not only maintained, but substantially 
increased. A larger number of Canadian scientific men resorted.to the 
laboratory, and many of the ablest of them made a more prolonged 
stay than in the previous year, and undertook researches involving 
more lengthened and elaborate methods and treatment. In order to 
facilitate the completion of certain valuable fishery researches, the 
station was not removed from its location, near Indian Point, St. 
Andrews, New Brunswick, though the question of transferring it to 
Canso, Nova Scotia, was fully discussed and practically decided at.the 
meeting of the Board of Management, held at St. Andrews, on June 
29th, 1900, and this decision was finally confirmed at the subsequent 
meeting of the Board, on the 20th February last, in Ottawa. It was 
contemplated from the inception of the scheme for founding and 
equipping a Biological Station for the Dominion, that season after 
season the building should .be floated from one suitable point along 
the seacoast to another, thus enabling the staff to grapple with the 
fishery problems successively presented in each .district, and enabling 
as far as possible complete solutions to be obtained for the benefit of 
the important interests, and the vast fishing population, bound up 
with our national fishery enterprises. The waters of the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence invited from the first the efforts.of the scientific staff who 
proposed to take advantage of the Canadian Biological Station; but 
it was deemed desirable to undertake. preliminary work in the prolific 
waters of the Bay of Fundy, where problems of urgency and importance 
awaited attention. The two seasons at St. Andrews have yielded 
abundant and valuable results. These results are embodied in a series 
of seven reports, many of them illustrated with drawings and plates, 
which are now in the hands of the King’s Printer, and will be issued 
ere long as a scientific supplement to the report of the Department of 
Marine and Fisheries, with the special approval of the Honourable the 
Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 
The researches referred to as being in the press embrace the follow- 
ing important subjects: 
“ Effects of Polluted. Waters on Fish Life,” by Professor Knight; 
“The Clam Fishery of Passamaquoddy Bay, including the Habits, Dis- 
tribution and Breeding of the Clam,” by Dr. Stafford; “ The Food of 
the Sea Urchins and other Echinoderms,” by Dr. Scott; “The Flora 
and Marine Algae of Passamaquoddy Bay,” by Professor Fowler; “The 
Young Stages of the Salmon, with special reference to Pacific Species,” 
by Professor Prince; a paper on “ The Effect of the Sardine Fishery on 
the Herring Supply in New Brunswick,” by B. Arthur Bensley, of 
