APPENDIX B LXXIII 



Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, B.C. 



The Biological Board's decision to urge the construction of a Pacific 

 Marine Scientific Station, was most favourably considered by the Hon. 

 L. P. Brodeur, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, and a parliamentary 

 appropriation was granted so that the erection of a building on the 

 shore of the classic Departure Bay waters, where so many famous 

 zoologists have secured marine rarities in amazing abundance, has been 

 rapidly proceeded with, and a laboratory is not only ready, but workers 

 have already commenced researches. 



An eminent Pacific biologist, a Fellow of the Eoyal Society, the 

 Rev. George W. Taylor, F.E.S.C., resident at Wellington, near Kanaimo, 

 B.C., has urged the desirability of a marine biological station for 

 British Columbia. The British Columbia Fisheries Commission in their 

 interim report of 1906 warmly urged the proposal, which has been 

 supported from various influential quarters. Provision was made in the 

 appropriation for biological stations, and this year the station is prac- 

 tically an accomplished fact. 



The lively interest of His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of 

 British Columbia (Mr. James Dunsmuir) and the very generous action 

 of Mrs. Dunsmuir, in granting an admirable site on a pretty slope 

 overlooking Departure Bay, near Nanaimo, rendered it necessary for 

 the sub-committee authorized to act, merely to secure a small additional 

 tract of land affording ample landing facilities, sites for hatching and 

 rearing ponds, and other projects, and then proceed with the clearing 

 of the site, and the commencement of a small biological building. 



Under the enthusiastic and capable supervision of Mr, Taylor, the 

 work has been vigorously urged forward, and one of the most admirable 

 marine laboratories in the world, situated close to one of the most richly 

 prolific fishery and marine areas known to zoologists, is now equipped 

 for work. 



The United States Government expeditions made some of the most 

 amazing captures in the waters overlooked by the new British Columbia 

 marine station. Herring, salmon, crab, oyster and other fisheries are 

 carried on in these Nanaimo waters, and a new whaling station has been 

 built on a lagoon a couple of miles distant. 



Dredging, tow netting and other methods of collecting specimens 

 were followed by Professor Eamsay Wright, Rev, George W. Taylor 

 and Professor Prince last summer, and the reputation of the locality 

 tor rich and varied fauna was fully sustained. 



The British Columbia public have followed with keen interest the 



