LII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
issued, in a forthcoming part of the “Contributions to Canadian 
Biology,” under which title the researches of the station staff are 
published. Professor MacBride had hoped to return from England in 
time to have taken part in the work at Gaspé last year, but this proved 
impossible, and the director, Professor Prince, and the assistant director, 
Professor R. Ramsay Wright, were detained by pressing duties, so that 
neither of them could take part*in the investigations carried on. 
Amongst the staff of workers, in addition to Dr. Stafford, Lecturer upon 
Zoology in McGill University, Montreal, were several senior and junior 
students, with distinguished records in science in McGill University. 
At the meeting of the Biological Board in Ottawa last May, the 
important recommendation of the British Columbia Fisheries’ Commis- 
sion, of which Professor Prince, as Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries, 
is chairman, was brought up, urging that a biological station be 
established on the Pacific coast. The fishery problems in British Colum- 
bia waters, are many and pressing, and the board decided to take steps 
in the direction desired by the commission. The board had the advan- 
tage of a conference with one of the British Columbia Commissioners 
and a distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society, the Rev. George W. 
Taylor, of Wellington, Nanaimo, B.C., who aided the board materially in 
considering the question. Inasmuch as United States’ biologists have 
for many years resorted to the rich waters of British Columbia for 
biological research and have carried off great stores of most valuable 
scientific material, and as one United States’ marine station has been 
equipped and has carried on work, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 
for a number of years past, the urgency of an adequately equipped 
station, under the auspices of the Dominion Government, requires no 
supporting argument. Nowhere else on the North American continent 
is there a field so prolific and so inviting as these unparalleled waters of 
the great Pacific province of Canada. It is satisfactory to know that 
the project has the hearty sympathy and support of the Honourable 
Mr. Brodeur, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and there is every cer- 
tainty that provision will be made by the Dominion Government for 
the building of a station and its appropriate equipment. 
It may be added that, during the summer of 1907, the Atlantic 
station will most probably be moved to the north shore of the St. 
Lawrence, near Seven Islands, where the whaling operations, carried | 
on, will afford valuable material for study, and the work of the whaling 
depot can be studied with a view to estimating the effects upon the 
whale supply, and the best measures for preserving and developing an 
industry so valuable and important. 
