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Running fresh and salt water. Electricity and 

 gas. Two small gasoline boats. 



Staff: Scientific: Dr. A. W. H. Needier, Zoologist in 

 charge. Technical and clerical: None. Main- 

 tenance and operation: 1. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: Investigators 

 accepted as volunteers by the Biological Board 

 are given facihties for work. Accommodation 

 arranged individually with local residents. 



Income: Included in amount for Atlantic Biological 

 Station. 



Provision for publication of results: As for Atlantic 

 Biological Station. 



Meteorological Service of Canada ('37) 



History or origin: Established in 1872 primarily 

 for the purpose of giving storm warnings for 

 shipping on the Great Lakes and in the Maritime 

 Provinces. It has developed until it now includes 

 all the activities associated with Meteorological 

 Services. In 1920 it began the investigation of 

 the surface-water temperatures in the Pacific. 



There was a fairly prevalent theory that the 

 water temperatures on the Pacific had a definite 

 bearing on the weather on the North American 

 continent, especially during the winter, and to 

 test this out, observations in connection with 

 the same were undertaken in 1920. For the first 

 two years various types of instruments were 

 tried out, and as result it was decided to use 

 thermographs of the mercury-in-steel type, in- 

 stalled in the intake of the condenser on the ship, 

 as it was found these gave accurate sea-water 

 temperatures and that at the depth of the intake 

 the temperature did not differ appreciably from 

 that at the surface. Thermographs were in- 

 stalled on the ships plying from Vancouver to 

 Hong Kong in 1922 and there are now fourteen 

 years of records on the sea-water temperatures 

 on the ship lanes in the North Pacific. In 1928 a 

 thermograph was installed on one of the ships 

 running from Vancouver to New Zealand and 

 Australia. In 1930 a number of the ships of the 

 Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. took the route 

 from Vancouver to Yokohama via Plonolulu, 

 and as a consequence, observations have also 

 been obtained over this route during this period. 



Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 



Organization to which attached: Department of Trans- 

 port — Dominion Government. 



Purposes and scope of activities: This particular 

 division of the Meteorological Service investigates 



sea-water temperatures and their relation to the 



climate and weather of Canada. 

 Equipynent: Fully equipped Meteorological Service 



at Toronto; Branch Office, Victoria; Office, 



^'ancouver — for ocean temperature observations. 

 Staff: J. Patterson, M.A., F.R.S.C, Director; 



W. A. Thorn, M.A., in charge, Victoria; E. B. 



Shearman, in charge, Vancouver. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: None. 

 Income: Received from Dominion Government. 

 Provision for publication of results: Publications of 



the Meteorological Service and various scientific 



periodicals. 



Station Biologique du Saint-Laurent ('37) 



History or origin: Founded in spring of 1931 by 



Laval University, Quebec, P. Q., as a section of 



the Institute of Marine Biology of that University. 



Location: Trois-Pistoles, P. Q., 160 miles down the 



river from Quebec City, on the Saint Lawrence. 



Organization to which attached: Laval University, 



Quebec City. 



Purposes: To study the chemical and physical 



conditions as well as the fauna and flora of the 



Saint Lawrence estuary. 



Scope of activities: The Station is open during the 



summer months only, from the middle of June 



until September, as the work is done mostly by 



men of the University of Laval (Quebec) or of 



Montreal. 



Equipment: A small laboratory for biological and 



chemical work, a fine boat equipped with all 



necessary apparatus for dredging, collecting of 



water samples with the reversing bottle, collecting 



of plankton with microplankton and macroplank- 



ton meter nets such as are used by the United 



States Bureau of Fisheries. The equipment is 



quite adequate for the work to be done. 



Staff: Director, Rev. Prof. Alexandre Vachon, Laval 



University. 



Biologists: Dr. J. L. Tremblay, Prof, of Marine 



Biology, Laval University; Dr. Georges Pre- 



fontaine. University of Montreal; Mr. L.-P. 



Dugal, Montreal University; Dr. V. D. Valdy- 



kov. Biological Board of Canada, Halifax; 



Dr. A. R. Potvin, Professor of Biology, Laval 



University; Rev. R. Dolbec, Laval University; 



Rev. A. Gagnon, Laval University; Rev. L. 



Larouche, Chicoutimi, P. Q. ; Mr. L.-P. Pigeon, 



Quebec; Mr. P. Demers, Montreal; Mr. R. 



Deschenes, Trois-Pistoles, P. Q. 



Chemists: Dr. Lucien Gravel, Laval University; 



