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"long tbo cori. St of California '^nd out over V' o slope, whore know- 

 ledge (hioloe-ic, ph^T.ic"-! ard chemicn], ) is so scrntT f-^t ^nTtl'-^■ag 

 dono v/jll prove v-lu^hle. And tier ^re so economical of oporaticn 

 that it wouM not Ixa r"^.if -f'lc-ult to raise the s-^^-ll sum to cover the 

 cost of fuel for ocean icnnl trips of -- xvoek or tvo, whonovor one 

 of the'T conld be sp rod from patrol. 



rroTi time to time f'^o Commicsion could r'.ccomodate a stvdent 

 of so-io special loc^.l problem in its Laboratory " t Terminal Island 

 (Pngo 117' ) . 



In short, coopor-tion "long the same lines rnd with the s'amo 

 limitations may be expected fram this Stat-) Service within its own 

 googr'-nbic sphere, on a small scale, "s fr m the U. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries on a l-rger (P^^ge 121 ). This, in fact, would bo but a 

 Drogrer:sive development of its present activiti^n. 



C. CANADIA- ■ESTAPflSHMMTS 



1. Biolosric^l Foard of Canada. 



This board stands in fundament p11:^t V^c snme rel-^tionshin to 

 OceanograTDb" as does t>^e United o+'^tes Rire"u of Fisheries! it as 

 constantly h^ns oceanographic prelects in ef .-^ect , r^nd the excellence 

 of its investig'^tions is internationallA^ recognized. '''any of its 

 marin^'^ "■ n'^^e^-tifr'^ t"""' n , -' •" s in f^e case of f'S Fureru of Fjsberies, 



Its vvork in fr e s b '■• ■ t e r does "lot c on c e r n u 3 "b r e . 



center around tbe biological problems of -^iie Fisberies, but '■' if iter- 

 ances in OT^ganizction leave the Foard m.ore free, tb.nn the Eure^u, 

 to carry on investigations in tb.e more theoretic ■'^ields 0^ oce'-oic 

 biology, and in ■'ha'sicrl oceanogra-^hy , t'':"'e pr'-ctic-l bearings of 

 which may seem, re otj. In genenl, f'e borrd. ser^'es ^b of-f'icir'l 

 advise-^ to t'-^e C'li-di^^.n Government in n ■ 1 such mrtters. It mnin- 

 t-ins t"-o m nine biological l-^borr tories , one "t St. Andrews, N. B. ^ 

 one at Nan-iim.o, British Columbia, '? s well -^s fisheries laboratories 

 "t Halifax, T^ov" Scotir, and at Priace Fupert, B. C. In thes^ bio- 

 lofic"^. l"bor''tores a s"'"stem has been developed b7," w'-i.ich students 

 and instructors fj^om Con'-dian colleges and universities "^ctivelv 

 p-rticip-te in fie in^''e.'^tig:--t ions of the bo-rd, under such direction 

 "s the crse demands. Special 'attention h'lS, in f."ct, been directed 

 to the l-^'borr tor"''- njet'nod of attncking oce'^nographic problem.s, re- 

 sulting "in r type of oooperrrtion with educational institutions f^-'t 

 may well be tnken as ■■ "^odel. For a summ" r^^^ of the vessel-opera- 

 tions of the bO'--^d see Page 37 . 



2. I-Tr'tionr^l Research Council of Canada 



The ororosed development of n-tional l"bor"torien bv t> e N"t- 

 lon^-1 Research Council of Crnada is m.entioned on pate . Un to 

 the ore' ent time the nartioip tion of the council in oceanography 

 hr s been confined chiefly to the aprointmiont o^" a committee on the 

 '^-cific coast to cooner^te '"ith com'-'ilttees organi^.ed under the Pac- 

 ific Science Association "t its meeting i»" I pnn in ■■Icvember, 1926. 



