MAKINE AND LAKE BIOLOGICAL STATIONS OF CANADA 

 Atlantic Biological Station. 



The Marine Biological Station of Canada remained at Canso, N.S., 

 for a second season, in accordance with the decision of the board of 

 npanagement at their meeting held in June, 1901, at Cansio. It was 

 apparent to the board that a single season spent at a new location 

 vas not sufficient to allow either of a thorough investigation of the 

 biological features of the adjacent waters, or of the oompletion of 

 I e searches carried on by the scientific staff of the station in each newly 

 selected locality. Hence, as was found to be desirable at St. Andrews, 

 New Brunswick, where the station commenced its important work, so 

 at Canso, the location next chosen on the coast of eastern Nova Scotia, 

 it was regarded as essential that the fishery investigations and cognate 

 work should be continued a second year, before the removal of the 

 Station to a new site was discussed and decided upon. The operations 

 at Canso have been in the highest degree important and successful, 

 and a second series of reports is almost ready for publication which 

 will embody more material, and be of no less practical significance 

 than the first series published in 1901, and entitled " Contributions to 

 Canadian Biology, being studies from the Marine Biological Station of 

 Canada, 1901.'^ 



Unfortunately the early months of the season were unusually 

 stormy, and most unfavourable for pursuing investigations in the 

 waters oft' Guysborough County and the Island of Cape Breton. The 

 Director of the Station (Professor E. E. Prince) was, moreover, pre- 

 vented by urgent departmental engagements from attending as usual, 

 ?nd aiding in carrying out the scheme of work which has been planned 

 for the year. Fortunately, Professor E. Ramsay Wright, i\.ssistant 

 Director, was able to arrange for a lengthened stay and, indeed, spent 

 the summer at Canso. Under his skilled and energetic guidance, a large 

 amount of eminently successful and productive work was done. The 

 laborious '"Plankton" investigations commenced by Dr. Wright during 

 the season of 1901 were assiduously continued until the close of the 

 Station's operations last fall. The minute floating forms of marine 

 life, which contribute so largely to the sustenance of young fishes in 

 the sea, and which constitute the wonderfully varied and varying Plank- 

 ton, have formed the subject of extensive and exhaustive studies in 

 other countries, in Germany, France, Norway, the United States and 



