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decided |Upon at some point nearer the Atlantic waters, as suggested 

 by Dr. Stafford. 



About the end of September the season's work ended, as the staff 

 had returned to their academic duties, and Dr. Stafford then returned 

 to Montreal. 



Biological Station, St. Andrews, N.B. 



The special committee appointed to examine various places on the 

 Atlantic shores of the Dominion with a view to the choice of a suitable 

 site for a permanent station, decided that St. Andrews, where the old 

 floating station began its work over ten years ago, presented overwhelm- 

 ing advantages. Fine fishing grounds are near at hand, while prolific 

 lobster, clam and other fishery areas, and almost unique faunistic local- 

 ities are close to St. Andrews. Besides, the facilities for investigations 

 are such that work can be conducted for a longer season each year than 

 in almost any other part of the coast, hence the Board decided with 

 little difficulty on St. Andrews. 



Professor D. P. Penhallow, McGill TJniversity, Hon. Secretary of 

 the Biological Board, v/as most active and assiduous in carrjdng out 

 the scheme approved by the Board. Many of the best sites, it was 

 found, were possessed by the Canadian Pacific Eailway Company, and 

 the president. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, most generously came to the 

 aid of the board, and he consented to the acquisition of a location for 

 the new station at Joe's Point, not far from the mouth of the St. Croix 

 river. The site is an ideal one, and will afford most convenient access 

 to the sea, a small landing stage and shed alone being necessary, while 

 the buildings, laboratories, library, common room and boarding quarters, 

 as well as the proposed aquarium, store-rooms, etc., are accessible by a 

 specially made drive from the high road near the famous golf links. 

 Much work has been done on the site under the supervision of Professor 

 Penhallow, and the building is now in an advanced state and nearing 

 completion, while a landing stage, suitable boats, water storage tank 

 and other necessary adjuncts are in course of construction. A large 

 staff of the best scientific workers in Canada will conduct active fishery 

 investigations during the simmier of 1908; but the work can never be 

 fully carried out until an appropriate fishery cruiser, devoted to deep- 

 sea dredging, etc., is provided. The small volume of marine biological 

 papers issued by the Station, under the title " Further Contributions to 

 Canadian Biology," has excited wide interest, and foreign governments 

 and fishery authorities have applied for copies which have been circulated 

 throughout the scientific world. 



