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tJie British Islands; but no systematic work of this kind has been 

 attempted before in the Atlantic waters of Canada. Professor Wriffht^s 

 leport/now nearly ready for publication, will form a new and impor- 

 tant contribution to fishery science and biological research on this 

 (;ontinent. Again, the investigation conducted by Professor Knight, 

 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, into the effects of sawdust and 

 other pollutions in waters frequented by fish, which has been com- 

 luenced at St. Andrews in 1900, were continued during the past year. 

 The early portion of the work was carried on upon the seacoast adja- 

 cent to the station; but in order to render the scope of the invesitigation 

 as complete and inclusive as possible, Dr. Knight found it advantageous 

 to pursue his further researches, upon these matters, in certain inland 

 localities. He did not, therefore, occupy liis accustomed table in the 

 laboratory of the Biological Station during the season. The results 

 cl his further experiments and observations in Ontario waters will 

 form a desirable and necessary complement to the work carried in the 

 preceding seasons at the station. That these results are of the highest 

 public value and interest, it is hardly necessary to remark, and they 

 sufficiently indicate how directly scientific work conducted by the staff 

 of the Station bears in an economic and commercial sense upon ques- 

 tions of vital moment to the state and the public at large. Of similar 

 practical importance are the results of Professor Knight's able and 

 laborious investigations on the effects of dynamite and similar explo- 

 fjves on fish life in the sea. The recent adoption of a method of 

 killing fish by means of dynamite, especially in Bay of Fundy waters, 

 renders Professor Knight's experiments extremely valuable, as the 

 question is one of widespread and, indeed, international importance. 

 Dr. Joseph Stafford, of McGill University, who has been untiring 

 in his zealous work each season was again appointed to act as curator 

 and general scientific aid in the station. In addition to pursuing 

 \arious lines of zoological work Dr. Stafford continued his faunistic 

 studies which has largely occupied him during the two previous years, 

 and his preliminary list of species observed is ready for publication, 

 while his report on some interesting parasites found upon fishes, etc., 

 examined at the station has also been completed. Professor A. B. 

 j\'!acallum. University of Toronto, has followed upj his elaborate 

 researches on the chemistry of Medusae and other marine animals in 

 relation to their salt-water environment. Dr. ]\Iacallum's report which 

 is about ready for publication will be a notable scientific contribution 

 in, a difficult and profound field of investigation. Dr. A. H. MacKay, 

 of Dalhousie University, Superintendent of Education for the Province 

 cf Nova Scotia, again, occupied a research table for a portion of the 

 season, and devoted special attention to those interesting inshore 



