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a report on the crabs, shrimps and decapod crustaceans of British 
Columbia; but among the staff of workers were Professor J. Playfair 
MeMurrich, Dr. A. T. Huntsman, both of Toronto University, and 
Professor Burwash of New Westminster. In connection with this 
station Dr. Charles B. Wilson, the recognized expert on Copepod Crus- 
taceans in the United States, has completed a splendid report, with fine 
series of drawings, of the Parasitic Crustaceans collected at Nanaimo; 
while the eminent fishery authority, Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, of Leland 
Stanford University has contributed a description of a new fish captured 
near the Station. 
During the season of 1909 President David Starr Jordan, of 
California, visited the Station, and in September a large party of mem- 
bers of the British Association made a two days’ stay there, and ex- 
pressed themselves astonished with the exceptional facilities offered for 
original work in science, and at the fine buildings and equipment, for 
which the Dominion Government provided funds. To the Rev. G. W 
Taylor is due the great credit of the initiation and completion of this 
notable scientific laboratory in British Columbia. 
The party, who journeyed from the Winnipeg meeting of the 
British Association to Nanaimo, included Professor Starling, F.R.S., 
London; Professor Stanley Gardiner, Cambridge, England; Professor 
Jungersen, Copenhagen; Professor A. B. Macallum, F.R.S., Toronto; 
Professor Harold Wager, Leeds; Dr. Marett Tims, Cambridge, and 
others; and among the non-professional visitors were Sir Mackenzie 
Bowell, the Mayor and City Council of Nanaimo, and others. 
The Great Lakes Station, at Go Home Bay, Georgian Bay, was 
open for research under the superintendence of Dr. B. Arthur Bensley, 
Assistant Professor of Biology, Toronto University, and an efficient 
staff, chiefly from the University of Toronto, who collected material in 
the waters of the Bay, and conducted original investigations on the 
rate of growth of black bass; the effect of various meshes of nets in 
fishing, and other interesting subjects. Several reports are nearing 
completion, embodying the results reached by the staff at the Station. 
