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and Educational Departments, to consider and report 

 on these suggestions and to draw up detailed estimates 

 as to the establishment that would be required and as 

 to the cost that would be inv^olved. 



2. The fourth paper read above is the Report of 

 the Committee thus formed. The members are unani- 

 mously in support of the scheme and of the recom- 

 mendation that the management of the Aquarium 

 should be entrusted to the Department of Fisheries. 



3. His Excellency the Governor in Council is 

 accordingly pleased to approve the recommendations of 

 the Committee and to sanction the construction of a 

 new combined Marine Aquarium and Biological station 

 at an estimated cost of Rupees two lakhs, and to 

 sanction the estimate of recurring expenditure, amount- 

 ing to Rs. 12,300 per annum, as shown in the annexure 

 to the Committee's report. Orders will issue in the 

 Public Works Department for the preparation of 

 detailed plans and estimates for the work. 



4. The Government are also pleased to direct that 

 the control and management of the Aquarium be trans ■ 

 ferred from the Educational to the Fisheries Depart- 

 ment, and that the Marine Assistant and Superintendent 

 of Pearl and C hank Fisheries be, ex-officio, the Director 

 of the combined Marine Aquarium and Biological 

 station.* 



* The plans of the Biological station and Aquarium are now under preparation 

 by the Government Architect and should result la a very tine institution both 

 scientifically and architecturally. 



