PROCEEDINGS FOR 1899 XXI 



According to preceding usage, the English, French, German, and 

 Italian languages are admitted as languages of the Congress, and all 

 papers must be written in one of them. 



21. The Cabot Celebration at Bristol. 



The Honorary Secretary was unfortunately unable! on account of 

 the condition of his health to attend the formal opening of the Cabot 

 Memorial Tower at Bristol in the month of October last. Mr Gilbert 

 Parker was opportunely present in England at this time and represented 

 the Eoyal Society of Canada at the ceremony in which the Marquess of 

 Dufferin and Ava took the leading part. Mr. Parker spoke at the 

 banquet which followed the opening of the Tower, and referred to the 

 deep interest that the society had taken in the honours paid to John 

 Cabot after four hundred years of forgetfulness by the Anglo-Saxon 

 race on which he had conferred such enduring benefits. Indeed, Mr. 

 Parker claimed with some justice for the society the initiation of the 

 movement which raised the Cabot monument and a tablet in his 

 memory in the Legislative Council Chamber at Halifax. A sketch of 

 the Cabot Tower was given in the last volume' of our proceedings. 



22. Marine Biological Station. 



In accordance with the recommendations of a committee appointed 

 by the British Association at its Toronto meeting, the Government has 

 been pleased to aid in the establishment of a Biological Station in the 

 Gulf of St La\\Tence for an experimental period of five years. 



This station is designed to afford the means whereby the food 

 supplies and the general conditions of life of fish, oysters and lobsters 

 may be thoroughly investigated. It is hoped that this work may be 

 carried out chiefly by competent investigators connected with our 

 leading universities. An initial grant' of $7000 for construction and 

 equipment of a floating station has been made, and the construction is 

 now in progress with a view to active work during the coming summer. 



The management of the station is invested in a Board elected by 

 the leading universities of the Dominion and constituted as follows : — 



E. E. Prince, Director, Department Marine and Fisheries. 

 Professor D. P. Penhallow, F.R S.C, of McGill University. 

 E. W. McBride, of McGill University. 

 Professor Ramsay Wright, F.R.S.C, of Toronto University 

 Dr. A. B. Macallum, of Toronto University. 



Professor L. W. Bailey, F.E.S.C, of the University of New 

 Bruns^vick. 



