[TAYLOR] BIOLOGICAL STATION ON THE PACIFIC COAST 207 
name was duly installed on our lists, and then all the references to it, in 
European literature were copied into our monographs, and the American 
species in this way had attributed to it larval characters and a life history 
to which it was in no way entitled. 
Then, of great practical importance would be the study of the dis- 
tribution and the life history of our food fishes. 
We do not yet know what species we have, or where they are to be 
found, or on what they feed or at what time of the year they breed. 
It is most important that we should settle these points, especially 
this last point, for every useful living creature is surely entitled vo 
protection during the breeding season, in its own interests and in ours. 
But one need not enlarge on the work that might be done at a 
Biological Station, for every biologist amongst you can think of a dozen 
points he would wish to investigate, a dozen problems he would like 
to solve. : 
I was intending to enter briefly into a discussion of ways and 
means and to ask this Section of the Royal Society to assist with its 
greot influence to secure the establishment of a Biological Station on the 
Pacific coast, but I have learnt since I came to Ottawa this morning that 
the money question now presents no difficulty and that our President 
will be able shortly to announce that a Station is to be built forthwith 
and that after all I need not have troubled to write and need not have 
worried you by reading this very hastily prepared plea. 
