CONTENTS OF NEW SERIES, Vol. IV., No. 2. 



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1. The Kki'hoductive Maturity or the Commox Eel. By J. T. Cdn- 



xinhham, ma.. . . . . . . 87 



2. Preliminary Note on Trawling Experiments in Certain Bays on 



THE South Coast of Devon. By F. B. Stead, B.A. . . . 90 



3. North Sea Investigations (Continued). By J. T. Cunningham, M.A. 97 



4. A Carcincs with a Right-handed Walking-leg on the Left side 



of the Abdomen. Preliminary Note by Albrecht Bethe . . 144 



.'). Notes on Plymouth Hydroids. By C. C. Nutting . . . 14G 



<i. A List of the Parasitic Copepoda of Fish obtained at Plymouth. 



By P. W. Bassett-Smith, Surgeon, R.N. . . . . 1.55 



7. Faunistic Notes. By E. J. Allen, B.Sc, W. Garstang, M.A., E. T. 



Browne, B.A., and T. V. Hodgson . . . . . 104 



8. Algological Notes. By George Brebner . . . . Ilif 



9. The Protection of Crabs and Lobsters. By E. J. Allen, B.Sc. . 182 



10. Report on the Sponge Fishery of Florida, and the Artificial 



Culture of Sponges. By E. J. Allen, B.Sc. . . .188 



11. Note on Projects for the Improvement of Sponge Fisheries. 



By George Bidder . . . . . . 195 



12. Recent Reports of Fishery Authorities. By J. T. Cunningham, M.A. , 



and F. B. Stead, B.A. . . . ... 203 



Director's Report . . . , ... 219 



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