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Fisheries Research in Canada: DR. A. G. HUNTSMAN 117

Internationalism in Science: DR. KARL K. DARROW 122

Obituary:Frank Schlesinger. DR. HENRY NoRRIs RUSSELL.Arthur Willis Goodspeed: PROFESSOR HORACE C.

RICHARDS.Recent Deaths ....................... ..................... 123

Scientific Events:The Death-Rate in Germany; United States Lectur-ers in Brazil; The Proposed Oceanarium at ConeyIsland; The Study of Germicides and Bactericidesat the Ohio State University; Work of the Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; The Li-

braryofSir Isaac Newton ............................. ............... 126

Scientific Notes and News ..................... ....................... 129Discussion:The Digestion of Living Tissues by ProteolyticEnzymes: DR. CARL A. DRAGSTEDT.- Vitamin C inEvergreen-tree Needles: DR. MAURICE DONNELLY.Transliteration of Russian Names: PFC. DAVID G.NICHOLS and PROFESSOR R. M. STRONG .............................. 131

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Resolution of the Council on the Science Mobiliza-tionBill ............................................ 135

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FISHERIES RESEARCH IN CANADABy Dr. A. G. HUNTSMAN

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IN fisheries research as in many other thingsCanada through her intermediate position is power-fully influenced by both Great Britain and the UnitedStates, but their differences have permitted her to"call her soul her own" and to follow a somewhatindependent course. Her organization for fisheriesresearch did not spring like Minerva "full-armoredfrom the head of Jove," the creation of some masteror collective mind, as have many research organiza-tions, but has developed like an organism, in relationto its environment and by learning from experience.

After the forced union of Upper and Lower Canada(Ontario and Quebec) in 1841, the new Province ofCanada felt the stimulus of opportunity for self-government. With demands for protection of its fish-ing population along the shores of the Gulf of St.Lawrence from inroads of fishermen from the coloniesof New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and from the New

England states, it considered the services of a Britishcruiser inadequate and in 1852 appointed PierreFortin, a graduate in medicine of McGill Universityand in later life a Member of Parliament, as magis-trate in command of the expedition for the protectionof the fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, buildingthe armed schooner La Canadienne for his use. Hewas not only magistrate, but also counselor and physi-cian to the scattered communities along the coast, andin addition initiated fisheries research. He describedthe fishes (naming a new species) as well as the fisher-ies, and developed a system of detailed fishery sta-tisties that was adopted for the rest of Canada andthat has given this country these basic data for fisheryresearch, collected in more detail and continuously fora longer period than holds for any other country. Onconfederation of the province with New Brunswickand Nova Scotia to form the Dominion of Canada in