THE HYDROIDS OF THE WEST COAST OF XOETH 



AMERICA 



IXTRODLTCTION^ 



The new material examined in connection with the prepara- 

 tion of this paper has been collected from various localities in the 

 Vancouver Island Region. In the summer of 1903 I spent some 

 time at the Minnesota Seaside Station at Port Renfrew on the 

 "West Coast of Vancouver Island at the entrance of the Strait of 

 Juan de Fuca. There was no provision made for dredging, con- 

 sequently all the specimens obtained were shore forms. In 1908 

 and again in 1909 I spent some time at the Dominion Biological 

 Station at Departure Bay, five miles from the City of Nanaimo 

 on the East Coast of the Island. Here I collected shore speci- 

 mens and obtained others by dredging, seldom in water more 

 than 25 fathoms deep. The best locality for dredging was in 

 Northumberland Strait, between Gabriola Island and other 

 smaller Islands, at the mouth of Dodd's Narrows, a narrow chan- 

 nel between two small islands, about ten miles southeast of the 

 Station. Besides the specimens that I collected while there, sev- 

 eral others were handed over to me by Rev. G-. W. Taylor, the 

 curator of the Station. These were obtained at various times 

 from various points along the coast from Rose Spit on Graham 

 Island in the Queen Charlotte Archipelago, southward as far as 

 Victoria, and many of these were very fine specimens. In 1909 

 Prof. John ]\Iacoun, Curator of the Dominion ^Museum at Ottawa, 

 with two assistants, ^Messrs. Spreadborough and Young, spent 

 four months collecting off Amphitrite Point at the entrance to 

 the Alberni Canal on the TVest Coast, making the ^dllage of 

 Ucluelet their working base. Through the kindness of Prof. 

 Macoun, I received the Hydroids of the Collection for examina- 

 tion. During that same season, Dr. A. G. Huntsman went over 

 to Ucluelet from Departure Bay, to collect for the University of 

 Toronto. He brought back some Hydroids that helped to sup- 

 plement the material from Prof. Macoun's collection. The speci- 



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