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Andrews, New Brunswick, and several faunistic and embryological 
investigations were carried on, which are not sufficiently advanced for 
presentation in permanent form at this stage. 
During the past twelve months the station has been located upon 
a new site, and the scientific workers have been conducting researches 
in a more northern area, viz., the waters of eastern Nova Scotia, includ- 
ing Chedabucto Bay, and that important outlet of the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence, the Strait of Canso. The station was removed to this northern 
site after two most successful seasons (1899 and 1900) at St. Andrews, 
New Brunswick, this step being in accordance with the decision of the 
Board of Management at the semi-annual meeting held in St. Andrews, 
in July, 1899. 
It may be noted that this Canadian station was designed in the 
form of an ark or oblong building placed upon a large scow, so that it 
could be moved from one point to another along the coast, as the Board 
of Management might from time to time determine. At each chosen 
location it might be either moored, or hauled up on dry land above high 
water mark, thus fulfilling the conditions of a floating as well as of a 
fixed scientific station. The building during its first two seasons was 
not placed upon the scow, but was erected on the shore at St. Andrews, 
New Brunswick, with the intention of having it placed upon the special 
scow whenever the Board of Management decided to move it away to a 
new locality. The laboratory was completed in June, 1899, and is a 
neat one-story structure of wood, well lighted from the roof and sides, 
and somewhat resembling a Pullman car, with a row of eight large win- 
dows along each side, and a door with sash provided with plate glass at 
either end. Its total length is 50 feet, the principal room, or main 
laboratory, occupying the central part of the structure and forming a 
well-lighted and cheerful work-room, measuring 30 feet in length, and 
15 feet in breadth. Two tank and store-rooms are at the anterior end, 
each room 6 feet by 6 feet, while at the opposite end are four rooms, one 
reserved for the director, another, adjacent to the director’s, devoted to 
the use of the attendant, and provided with a sink and spacious shelving, 
and certain kitchen appliances, while on the opposite side of the passage 
are two rooms, one used as a tank room, and the other as a chemical 
room, the last being provided with a table for. chemical balances and 
other instruments, and with shelves for storing chemicals and re-agents. 
Of the eight windows on each side, half of them light up the main work- 
room. On the roof, which is slightly elevated in the centre, is a neat 
raised ventilator, or skylight, with nine movable panes on either side to 
admit light and fresh air. The scow on which the laboratory was placed 
in the spring of 1901 is sixty feet in length and nineteen and a half feet 
