XV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
institution, in which the Royal Society has taken an active part, accom- 
plished its object when a suitable building was completed last June at 
St. Andrews in New Brunswick, and scientific researches of an impor- 
tant nature were commenced. At the Toronto meeting of the British 
Association in 1897, the project was discussed and matured, and stress 
was laid upon its importance, not only as an aid to the advancement 
of biological science generally, but as an agency for promoting fishery 
and marine investigations of an eminently practical character. The 
committee appointed by the British Association attached weight to 
this latter consideration, especially in view of the vast coastal and deep- 
sea fisheries possessed by the Dominion. 
The original committee, consisting of Professor Prince, as Chair- 
man, Professor Penhallow, as Secretary, and Professors A. B. Macallum, 
T. Wesley Mills, E. W. McBride, John Macoun, and T. W. Thistleton 
Dyer (Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew), so far advanced the scheme 
that it was placed in the hands of a special board of management, under 
which the laboratory has been erected and scientific work begun, with the 
aid of the Government grant of $5,000 for building and equipment and 
$2,000 per annum for maintenance and necessary expenses. The 
board of management includes Professor Prince (Director), Professor 
Penhallow (Secretary), and Professors Macallum, A. P. Knight, L. W. 
Bailey, Ramsay Wright, E. W. McBride, the Rev. Abbé Huard, and 
Dr. A. H. MacKay. 
The actual work of the station began in July ee and it is a matter 
for justifiable congratulation that during the months of July, August 
and September a numerous and distinguished staff of workers con- 
ducted important biological investigations within its walls. 
Dr. R. R. Bensley, Demonstrator and Lecturer upon Biology in 
the University of Toronto, and Mr. B. A. Bensley, Fellow in Biology 
of the same university, were the first to begin scientific researches at 
the station. Dr. Joseph Stafford, Fellow in Biology in Toronto Uni- 
versity, arrived at the end of July, and made a lengthy stay, occupied all 
the time with some valuable investigations. Professor Knight, of King- 
ston, Ont., and Professor A. B. Macallum, of Toronto University, also 
occupied tables in August and September. Mr. F. S. Jackson, Demon- 
strator in Zoology, McGill University, Montreal, spent some time at 
work, and Professor L. W. Bailey, of Fredericton, N.B., paid a visit to 
the laboratory. Professor Penhallow had intended carrying on 
botanical researches, but found himself unable to carry out his inten- 
tion, and Professor McBride, Professor John Macoun, and Dr. A. H. 
MacKay, wrote the Director, regretting inability to realize their desire 
to conduct scientific work at the station during its first season. To the 
