[PRINCE] BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF CANADIAN WATERS 83 
under stress of stormy weather, for the species named number over 200, 
some series consisting only of the scarcer species secured, and omitting 
well-known common species. Besides a few fishes the list is as follows: 
tunicates 15; mollusks 54; annelids 54, the collection of worms being in 
Scotland undergoing examination by the famous authority Professor 
W. C. McIntosh; crustacea 72; polyzoa 15; echinoderms 22; hydroids 
21; sponges 13; a list which included quite a number of new species in 
many groups, and which has grown into the imposing “ Catalogue of 
the Marine Invertebrata of Eastern Canada,” with which Dr. Whiteaves, 
it may be proudly claimed, ushered in the new century. Each of these 
valuable faunistic reports had its value largely increased by the 
extremely practical notes and recommendations on oyster fisheries, and 
on lobster, mackerel, and other important fishing industries, which 
formed addenda; and I may add that the force of some of Dr. 
Whiteaves’ recommendations has not diminished with the lapse of thirty 
years. It would be unpardonable to overlook the last addition to the 
faunistic publications for the Gulf, or rather a northern portion of it, 
viz: Dr. Joseph Schmitt’s fauna of Anticosti, forming part IV of his 
beautiful “ Monographie de L’Tle d’Anticosti” dedicated to M. Henri 
Menier to whose munificence Dr. Schmitt owed the opportunity of 
making his very full survey of Anticosti Island. Published in Paris 
in 1904, it embraces the physiographic and biological features of that 
locality ; and its marine biological portion, as the author states, especially 
so far as the deeper waters are concerned, owes much to the recorded 
dredgings of Packard and Verrill ‘et surtout ceux du Dr. Whiteaves.” 
British Columbia Waters a Promising Field. 
I had proposed speaking somewhat fully about that great, almost 
unparalleled field for biological research which the Pacific coast of 
Canada offers to the ardent zoologist. No one who has cast a dredge 
over the bow of a vessel into these prolific waters, crowded with 
exuberant life, can doubt that there is no land of promise, or to avoid 
the Hibernicism, no water of promise, offering greater reward to the 
biologist. In the course of a day’s dredging, as recorded in this Society’s 
Transactions, no less than 150 species comprising 7,000 specimens were 
taken in Departure Bay, near Nanaimo, many of them new species. 
Plankton work has been untouched there if we except the tow-nettings 
of Dr. George Dawson in 1885, and my own in 1894, both series of 
specimens suffering the same fate in the fire of 1896. Though Gould in 
1856 described some Pacific invertebrates in the Pacific Railway 
Report, Vol. V, yet it was Dr. Philip Pearsall Carpenter’s “ Mollusca 
of the West coast of North America,” presented to the British Associa- 
