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part of those naturalists making use of its resources. 



" The opportunity for securing the 20,000 necessary 

 for the inauguration of such a Zoological Observatory has 

 presented itself in connection with the International Fisheries 

 Exhibition. Should there be, as there is reason to hope, a 

 large surplus fund in the hands of the Committee of the 

 Exhibition, at its close, it is proposed to bring the sugges- 

 tion of the establishment of a Marine Zoological Observa- 

 tory before the Committee, and to endeavour to obtain the 

 support of that body for the scheme. It is proposed that 

 a deputation of scientific men should interview the Com- 

 mittee of the Fisheries Exhibition, in order to explain the 

 importance of a Marine Observatory and the close rela- 

 tionship of the work done in such an institution, to the 

 interests of our fisheries ; and the Committee would then 

 -be asked to consider the propriety of handing over the sum 

 of ^"20,000 (or if possible a larger sum, this being a mini- 

 mum) to Trustees, for the purpose of building and endow- 

 ing such an Observatory, provision being made as to the 

 future government and occupation of the Observatory, as 

 above suggested. 



" The following gentlemen have expressed their appro- 

 val of the general tendency of the above proposals, and 

 their desire to co-operate in any further proceedings 

 directed towards the accomplishment of the plan of action 

 here suggested : 



" SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, BART., M.P., President of the 

 Linnean Society. 



P. L. SCLATER, M.A., F.R.S., Secretary of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society. 



F. JEFFREY BELL, M.A., F.Z.S., Professor of Zoology 

 in King's College, London. 



