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mented whenever possible by the Association's sailing-boat, the Anion 

 JJohrn. The small steam-launch Firefly, which was most serviceable 

 for this purpose for many years, has been at last sold for breaking up. 



The Council greatly regrets that there is no immediate likelihood of 

 the Association procuring a suitable boat for deep-sea work. 



The Library. 



All the most important annual publications relating to Sea Fisheries 

 are now in the Library, both official publications of most Governments, 

 and publications of fishery societies and local authorities. Several 

 memoirs, containing the results of marine explorations, have been added 

 during the past year, notably the two concluding volumes of the 

 Challenger lieports ; there have also been added memoirs from the 

 German Plankton Expedition, the cruises of H.M.S, Investigator, in 

 the Ray of Bengal, the Commission for Investigation of the German 

 Seas, and tlie Bahama Expedition of the Iowa State University. The 

 Association has also received, by gift and exchange, the publications 

 of the Eoyal Societies of London and Edinburgh, the Zoological Society, 

 the Royal Microscopical Society, the Society of Arts, and numerous 

 other scientific societies, academies, and museums at home and abroad. 

 To these, and to the many donors of books and papers, the Council 

 take occasion to render the thanks of the Association. 



The Museum and Exhibition Series. 



Although a good deal has been done in the Museum during the past 

 year, much remains still to be done ; and the Director has been 

 fortunate in obtaining promises of assistance from various naturalists 

 in this important work during the coming summer. 



The series of specimens mounted for exhibition, to which reference 

 has been made in the last two Eeports of the Council, was shown at 

 the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, in 1894, and is at 

 present at the Scarborough Fishery Exhibition, together with a set 

 of dredges, trawls, and tow-nets. 



The Staff. 



Several changes have occurred lately in the Staff. ]\Ir. E. J. Bias 

 resigned the post of Director on October 11th, 1894; and Mr. E. J. 

 Allen, B.Sc, University College, London, who had long been a worker 

 at the Laboratory, succeeded him on January 12th, of this year. 



Mr. Cunningham is at present stationed at Grimsby. 



Mr. E. W. L. Holt was unfortunately compelled, by ill-health, to 

 leave the Association's service in March last, and Mr. Stead has been 



