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ty the Commission, the Government will be in a position to decide what is 

 required in the interests of the country and for the development ;of its 

 resources. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. H. JVIcLeod, 

 • Henry T. Bovey, 



; Sandford Fleming, 



E. Deville. 



Thos. C. Keeper, 

 April 13, 1903. 



20. Marine and Lake Biological Stations. 



As will appear on page xli. of last year's Proceedings, the Society 

 passed a resolution upon this subject and ordered that a copy be sent 

 t> every member of the Government and of Parliament. The Acting 

 Honorary Secretary prepared a letter embodying the resolution and 

 sent it out to the persons indicated. A number of acknowledgments 

 have been received. 



In their report for 1895 the Council while transmitting a letter 

 from Professor Knight, of Queen's University, invited the special 

 attention of the Royal Society to the importance of instituting a zoo- 

 logical laboratory at some place on the lakes or upon the seashore of 

 the Dominion. The Government established a marine laboratory on 

 the seashore in 1899 and its success has been recorded in the reports 

 cf Council every year since then. The Council has now the pleasure 

 cf announcing that a similar laboratory was instituted in 1901 on the 

 lakes under the supervision of the Dominion Commissioner of Fish- 

 cries, but under the immediate direction of Dr. B. Arthur Bensley. 

 The management is entrusted to a committee of members of the scien- 

 tific faculties of the University of Toronto and the Council is indebted 

 to Dr. Bensley and the Rev. Dr. Burwash, the chairman of the com- 

 mittee, for a report upon its progress, 



(A report on the Atlantic Station from Professor Prince will be 

 found in Appendix B. together with the above on Lake Huron). 



21. Tidal Survey. 



A full rq)ort of this service, by Dr. W. Bell Dawson, is given as 

 Appjendix C. 



22. Ethnological Survey. 



It will be seen on reference to pp. xiv. and xl. of last year's 

 Proceedings that a Committee was appointed to initiate an Ethnolo- 

 gical Survey of Canada on lines corresponding to those adopted in 

 the United Kingdom and to continue similar work which had been 



