PROCEEDINGS FOR 1901 XXVII 
Columbia University, New York, formerly of Toronto University, who 
spent the season of 1899 at the Biological Station, and a short paper on 
“The Pectoral Fin of Lamma Cornubica, by Dr. A. H. MacKay and 
Professor Prince. 
All these investigations, it need hardly be pointed out, have not 
only a high scientific value, but, in most instances, are of immense 
and immediate and practical importance. This combination of practice 
with science, of utilitarian and technical progress, has been emphasized 
by the Board of Management, when outlining the work of the Station, 
and the results of that work, it need hardly be said, amply fulfil the 
original intention. 
At Canso, where, during the coming season, work will be carried 
on, the immediate investigation of the more southerly area of the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence will be prominent, while the Bras d’Or Lakes and the 
adjacent waters of the Gut of Canso will furnish a virgin field for 
promising researches. Canso is a great centre of the Gulf and Atlantic 
deep-sea fishing industries, and its selection so early in the history of 
the Biological Station is a fortunate one for our fisheries. 
The equipment of the Station has been rendered more complete by 
the addition of new dredges, seines, tow-nets and plankton apparatus 
of the most recent forms, while the library is receiving continual addi- 
tions in order to increase its usefulness as an aid to original work. 
Special mention must be made of the munificent gift by the British 
Government of a complete set of the costly scientific reports of the 
voyage of H.M.S. “Challenger.” Through the gracious and willing 
efforts of the Right Honourable Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, 
the gift was at once sanctioned by the Right Honourable Joseph Cham- 
berlain, His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the 
magnificently illustrated and supremely original and valuable papers 
contained in the fifty volumes of the Challenger Reports are now 
available for the staff of the Station. 
During the past year Professor Macallum, Toronto; Professor 
A. P. Knight, Kingston; Professor McBride, Montreal; Professor James 
Fowler, Kingston; Dr. Joseph Stafford, Toronto; Dr. R. H. Scott, 
Toronto; Dr. F. 8. Jackson, Montreal; Dr. A. H. MacKay, Halifax; 
Mr. Bower, of Kingston, and the Director, Professor E. E. Prince, 
resorted to the Station, and conducted marine investigations. 
At the meeting of the Board in February, an Assistant Director 
for 1901, Professor Ramsay Wright, was elected, and has since received 
official authority by Order in Council. 
It is worthy of special mention that through the Secretary of the 
Station, Professor Penhallow, the Board were informed. early last 
