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has been of real practical value, and the Government have supplied a 
large number of applicants with copies of it, for it not only treats of the 
structure, life-history, and utilisation of the clam (i.e. the various 
Atlantic species), but suggests means of conserving the clam industry 
and of recuperating depleted beds. 
At Canso and at Malpeque interesting captures of fishes were made 
and Mr. Geo. A. Cornish, Science Master at Lindsay Collegiate Institute, 
and Mr. C. McLean Fraser, of the High School, Nelson, B.C., prepared 
accurate descriptions, as many of the specimens differed in essential 
features from specimens described in current works: and Mr. Cornish 
has completed a descriptive list of Canso fishes. The latter worker also 
wrote a report on the Polyzoa of Canso: but the marine botany has 
not been neglected. Mr. C. B. Robinson, formerly of Pictou Academy, 
now of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. New York, 
making a collection of the Algæ of eastern Nova Scotia. and a carefully 
prepared list is now in the press.1 Dr. Mackay, Superintendent of 
Education for Nova Scotia, has also contributed a list of the Diatomaceæ 
of Canso. Professor. James Fowler, Queen’s University, has been very 
loyal to the station, and the staff have always been glad to welcome this 
Nestor of Canadian Science professors, who at three out of four loca- 
tions, has made large collections of the flowering plants; and of the 
St. Andrews and Canso floras has completed very full lists. An impor- 
tant piece of original work has been that of Mr. J. C. Simpson, an 
able member of the staff of McGill’s University assistants, who made 
a very thorough study of the Protozoa of Gaspé Basin waters, following 
in the wake of the truly eminent Dr. George Dawson who, as already 
mentioned, did his first original research at Gaspé, and chose the Pro- 
tozoan Foraminifera, publishing a paper, his first of over a hundred 
and thirty papers, under the title of “The Foraminifera of the Gulf 
and River St. Lawrence,” (Can. Nat., June, 1870, and Ann. of Nat. 
Hist., Vol. VII, 1871). My own work has covered many subjects, but 
only two investigations appear in the “ Contributions ” published from 
the station, one on the larval and post-larval Gaspereau, as compared 
with the herring and other Clupeoids, with coloured plates, now printing, 
and an account, in conjunction with Dr. Mackay, of the remarkable 
pectoral fins of the mackerel shark (Lamna cornubica). The work 
done at the station by such able workers as Professor MacBride, 
Professor J. J. Mackenzie and others, will, no doubt, appear in published 
form in further printed “ Contributions ” ere long. Others of the staff, 
who have spent longer or shorter periods at the station, including Dr. 


1Dr. G. U. Hay’s list of N. B. Algæ is the only one I know hitherto pub- 
lished in the Maritime Provinces. 
