Where soft, persistent trade winds urge never-ending processions of blue-water rollers upon wide, sweeping sandy beaches and the sun radiates its life-giving energy into responsive warmness of the tropical Atlantic - there is the scene of McGill University's biological research station in beautiful Barbados. Two thousand, four hundred air miles south from their home campus in Montreal, this small Canadian research group works in a world of tropical marine life, where side by side with the island's vacationing visitors, they swim the shallows collecting various specimens needed for rigorous scientific study. Intent on pure research into the sub-surface life of the world's sun-soaked waters they also act as host to visiting colleagues undertaking such down-to-earth studies affecting the picturesque island of Barbados as coastal erosion problems and bus transportation systems. McGill's Bellairs Research Institute is another example of Canada's growing participation in the varied aspects of international science and technology.