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Excerpt from Hydroids From Vancouver Island and Nova Scotia
The work has only been started but it promises well. If at some time in the near future the Department of Fisheries could see its way clear to equip and man a boat to do such work as the Albatross and the Fishhawk have been doing and are doing for the us. Bureau of Fisheries, there need be no lack of opportunity for doing good work. If such were carried out, it would not be long before the number of species of hydroids reported would be many times the present number.
The collections that have been reported on are as follows: (1) Some shore forms collected by the writer at the Minnesota Seaside Station, in the summer of 1903. (2) Material collected by Rev. G. W. Taylor, on a trip to Queen Charlotte islands and other points to the north of Vancouver island, previous to 1908. (3) Collections made at Departure bay in 1908 and 1909. These consisted of shore forms near the laboratory on the mainland, and on the various islands near by, of forms dredged right in the bay between the station and the outer islands and some dredged farther out, outside of Newcastle island and over towards Gabriola island. (4) Collections made chie?y by dredging in Northumberland strait, at the entrance to Dodds narrows and reported in the West Coast paper as from Dodds narrows. (5) Some shore material collected by Mr: John Macoun at Victoria in 1908. (6) Collections made by Dr. A.
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