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on our present income. The vessel is in good condition, and it is 

 hoped that she may do good work for the Association for some years 

 to come. 



Museum. 



Progress has been made in the re-arrangement of the type collection 

 of the local fauna for the Museum, and several of the more important 

 groups are almost complete. The herbarium has also been largely 

 augmented during the year, and should prove valuable to botanists who 

 visit the Laboratory. 



The Staff. 



The only alteration which has taken place in the staff since the last 

 Annual Meeting has been the appointment of Mr. T. V. Hodgson to 

 the post of Director's Assistant. 



Mr. Cunningham still continues to devote himself to investigations 

 connected with the North Sea fisheries, though the Council have to 

 regret that up to the present no special donation has been forthcoming 

 to provide for the continuation of this work. 



It is in the direction of an increase in the number of naturalists 

 employed by the Association that we must look for future developments 

 of our work. Now that a more suitable steamboat has been procured, 

 the Laboratory and its appliances may be regarded as sufficiently 

 complete to allow of a much larger amount of useful work being turned 

 out, if a sufficient number of workers can be engaged for lengthened 

 periods. 



The Library. 



Although that portion of the Library which comprises the literature 

 relating to Sea Fisheries may be regarded as fairly complete, a con- 

 siderable sum of money will have to be spent before an equally 

 favourable report can be made of the supply of literature dealing with 

 scientific zoology and botany. Not only are we unable, with our present 

 income, to procure regularly many of the important journals, which 

 should find a place in a Library such as ours, but back numbers of 

 journals to which we now subscribe are in many cases deficient. 

 Through the kindness of Sir William Flower, one such defect has been 

 remedied during the year by the completion of our set of the Philo- 

 sophical Transactions of the Eoyal Society from the year 18G6. 



The thanks of the Council are due to the Eoyal Society, the 

 Zoological Society, the Eoyal ]\licroscopical Society, and numerous 

 other societies and individuals, at home and abroad, for copies of their 

 publications, by gift or exchange, which have been received. 



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