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and Fisheries, stated that “over the enormously large Pacific coast of 
Canada there must not only in the tidal service but also in the improve- 
ment of ocean and river navigation be large increases of public grants 
from year to year.” 
We give as Appendix B an elaborate summary of the work accom- 
plished in this service during the past year, and intended to be done 
during the present summer under the able superintendence of Mr. W. 
Bell Dawson. 
15. TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY. 
The Honorary Secretary has received the following report from 
the Directors of the Engineers’ Club, on the Trigonometrical Survey 
of the Dominion of Canada, to which special attention was directed on 
more than one occasion by the Royal Society :— 
Report of Directors on Trigonometrical Survey. 
“The Directors to whom was referred the recommendation in the 
President’s annual address as to the necessity for a trigonometrical and 
geodetic survey of the Dominion of Canada, beg leave to report: Your 
Directors have had under consideration the Report of the Committee 
of Ontario Land Surveyors on Topographical Surveying in 1899—Otto 
J. Klotz, Chairman—with the memorial of the Royal Society of Canada, 
copies of which were laid on the table of the Engineers’ Club at its last 
meeting, November 7th, and have come to the decision that the best 
method to be adopted to further the objects of the Ontario Land Sur- 
veyors, as expressed in their report (a copy of which is annexed) will 
be to support the memorial of the Royal Society to His Excellency the 
Governor-General in 1898, recommending that an ‘annual appropria- 
tion of $10,000 for a few years, would be sufficient to carry to comple- 
tion the measurement of the 98th Meridian, which the Royal Society 
believe will be of great benefit to Canada, not only for its immediate 
practical results, but also in placing the country in a more favourable 
light before the scientific world.’ 
“Your Directors further recommend that a copy of this report 
be forwarded to the Secretary of the Royal Society, with a request that 
it should be sent to His Excellency the Governor-General.” 
16. MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION OF CANADA. 
In the report of Council for 1898, reference was made to the pro- 
posed establishment of a Marine. Biological Station on the Atlantic 
coast of the Dominion. The movement for the creation of such an 
