86 THE REPOET UPON No. 13 



Biological Depaktment, Uis'iversity of Toronto, Oct. 14, 1912, 



E. Tinsley, Esq., 



Superintendent of Game and Fisheries, Toronto. 



Dear Sir, — I beg to report as follows upon the work carried on at the Georgian 

 Bay Biological Station during the past summer: 



The Station has had an unusually succes'sful season, both in respect of the num- 

 ber of workers and the results obtained. The progress of the investigation of the 

 parasitic animals attacking fishes, which has been under way for several seasons, 

 is now such that many points in the identity and life history of these forms have 

 now been cleared up. Several new species have been identified, Mr. A. E. Cooper, 

 who has had this work in hand, has also made infection experimenits with small 

 bass, using parasite-bearing minute Crustacea, which serve as food, as a source of 

 infection. 



The work of Mr. A. D. Eobertson on the Mollusca and that of Mr. H. E, White 

 on the Bryozoa has been extended to comprise a generall survey of Georgian Bay 

 and is now nearly complete. 



Dr. E, M. Walker, under whose supervision the laboratory has been conducted, 

 has continued his work on the identification and life-histories of the Dragon-flies 

 of the region. He has already published a memoir on this group in North America, 

 and now has the material at hand for the special description of the Georgian Bay 

 species. 



Mr, W, A. Clemens has been associated with him during the past season and 

 has made collections and identifications of the local species of May-flies. 



The botanical work of the Station has been placed upon a definite footing 

 through Professor W. T. MacClement, of Queen's University, who has himself car- 

 ried out extensive studies on the Water-moulds, some of which attack living fishes 

 and their eggs, and has supervised the work of collecting and identifying the fleshy 

 fungi of the region. Miss E. Pen&on, Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. Bissonnette have 

 been engaged in the latter work and upwards of three hundred species have been 

 identified. 



Yours respectfully, 



B. A. Bensley, 



EEPOET OF WOEK PEEFOEMED BY THE PATEOL BOAT " NAVAECH " 



ON THE EIDEAU WATEES AND BAY OF QUINTE 



DUEING THE YEAE 1912. 



Began on Friday the 3rd May fitting out the " Navarch," for the season's 



-work, and on Saturday patrolled to Picton and back to Belleville. Spent Sunday 



:£i,t Belleville. From the 6th to the 11th May patrolled in the neighbourhood of 



"Belleville, visiting Brighton, Bakers Island and Hay Bay, patrolling in the Marsh 



^'between Kingston Mills and Kingston on the 10th instant and the North side of 



Wolfe Island on the 11th, Spent Sunday in port at Kingston, also Monday on 



■account of the rough weather. The following week visited Kingston, patrolling 



down the North Channel to Gananoque on the 14th instant, and on to Brockville, 



Eockport, the North side of Wolfe Isiland and Point Alexandria, spending Sunday 



at Kingston, 



