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The station is still hampered in an important branch of its work, 

 viz. : the survey of deep-sea fishing grounds, through lack of a specially 

 built steamer, such as most Government stations of the kind in other 

 countries possess. The need of such a research steamer has been specially 

 felt at Malpeque, which is some distance from the cod, haddock and 

 mackerel fishing grounds, and if the station is moved, as is likely, to 

 some more northerly location, in the Bay of Chaleur, or still nearer 

 the St. Lawrence river, the need of such a vessel will become still 

 more pressing. 



The work of the Canadian Station comitinues to attract niotioa 

 abroad. The French, German and United States Governments have 

 desired copies of the reports, already published, of the biological work 

 completed, and the Government of New South Wales, and the fishery 

 authorities in ISTew Zealand, have recently made similar requests. An 

 important series of papers and reports are on the eve of completion, and 

 will be issued as soon as possible. 



The Biological Station at the Mouth of the Go-Home Eiver — 



Georgian Bay. 



This important inland biological station has continued to success- 

 fully carry on the fishery and other researches, in the waters of Georgian 

 Bay, commenced three yearg ago. Dr. B. Arthur Bensley was entrusted 

 with the main direction of the work, and a number of university men 

 have ably aided in the faunistic studies, the collection and identification 

 of the fishes in the adjacent waters, w,hich had occupied the staff in 

 the preceding seasons, amongst other important work done. The de- 

 tailed and accurate hydrographie survey which Professor C. H. C. 

 Wright, B.A.Sc, of the Faculty of Applied Science, had supervised, 

 was brought to a completion during the season, and a large chart has 

 been forwarded to the Marine and Fisheries Department through the 

 Eev. Chancellor Burwash, of Victoria University, who has been pro- 

 minently associated with the station since its inception. A very exten- 

 sive series of specimens of young black bass, at various ages, and of 

 other fish, has been made, with the object of determining the rate of 

 growth, the food at various ages, and the changes in the form and 

 external appearance of the young. The collection, beautifully pre- 

 served, has for safety been stored in Toronto, in the store-rooms of the 

 Biological Department of the University and as it is one of the largest 

 ever made in the inland waters of Canada, it will form the nucleus for 

 a national collection of fresh-water fishes, when such a collection can 

 be suitably accommodated in Ottawa. 



