PROCEEDINGS FOR 1902 XX VII 
ment of a Senior Curator to act for the whole season, instead of the 
previous system of appointing monthly curators, selected in succession 
from the junior members of the staff during each season’s operations. 
For the year 1901 Dr. Joseph Stafford, of Toronto University, and now 
a member of the staff of McGill University, was appointed to the office, 
and he proved himself to be an able and efficient assistant. 
Amongst the scientific men who occupied tables in the laboratory 
during the season of 1901 were Professor Ramsay Wright, Toronto 
University; Professor A. P. Knight, Queen’s University, Kingston; 
Professor A. B. Macallum, Toronto University ; Professor Fowler, 
Queen’s University; Dr. Joseph Stafford, McGill University; Mr. C. 
McLean Fraser and Mr. George A. Cornish, of Toronto University; 
Dr. Linville, of New York; and Professor Prince, Commissioner of 
Fisheries, Ottawa. 
Very elaborate Plankton investigations were carried on month after 
month by Professor Wright, from May to October. Some most impor- 
tant experiments, on the effects of dynamiting fish, were conducted by 
Professor Knight, while Professor Macallum continued his abstruse 
researches on the chemistry of Awrelia and other Meduse. Dr. Stafford 
pursued, without cessation, faunistic studies, having completed in 1900 a 
very inclusive list of the marine animals (vertebrate and invertebrate) 
of Passamaquoddy Bay, with many new additions discovered and deter- 
mined while the station was at St. Andrews. A number of remarkable 
fishes were examined by the staff, including Scomberoids, not generally 
considered to belong to the North Atlantic fauna. A specimen of 
Carcharias littoralis, the blue or sand shark, and an example of Ortha- 
goriscus (the sunfish) were procured. Some very valuable prepara- 
tions for permanent museum purposes were made of these specimens by 
the junior assistants in the station. 
By the kindness of Messrs. A. N. Whitman & Sons, of Canso, beam- 
trawl experiments were carried on in Chedabucto Bay; but the results 
were only partially successful. The dredges and floating tow-nets 
yielded, however, abundant material for study, and some elaborate 
reports and papers, on the observations made and the specimens procured, 
are in course of preparation for publication. 
Unlike most of the United States biological stations, in which ele- 
mentary and advanced teaching is provided, and a large part of the work 
done is of the nature of school instruction, the Canadian station gives 
no instruction in biology, and admits only qualified workers who have 
been prepared by university training for conducting original and inde- 
pendent researches. The marked success of the station during the first 
three years of its operations proves that Canada has no lack of scientific 
