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Director's Report 



The number of workers who have occupied tables at the Laboratory 

 during the winter mouths has not been large. It becomes increasingly 

 evident that the amount of work which can be carried on during this 

 period of the year must depend upon the number of naturalists who 

 can be employed by the Association to undertake general or special 

 investigations. At the present moment our funds will only permit of 

 the employment of one such naturalist, who is engaged in fishery 

 investigations. My own time is so much occupied with administrative 

 and other duties, that comparatively little of it can be devoted to 

 scientific research. It may be worth while to point out once more that 

 whilst the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries is allowed 

 an annual sum of £35,000 for salaries alone, a considerable portion of 

 which is devoted to the payment of naturalists engaged in research, 

 the total income of the Marine Biological Association amounts to only 

 about £2000 a year. 



Since the publication in August of the last number of the Journal, 

 the following naturalists have visited the Laboratory : — 



Brebner, G., August 1st to October 6th, 1896 ) 



December 30th, 1896, to Jan. 18th, 1897 \ (^^^'"'^^^ ^^^^^')- 

 Brumpt, E. (Paris), September 8th to 24th {General Zoology). 

 Church, A. H., B.A., July 8th to September 30th {Marine Algcc). 

 Goodrich, E. S., B.A., January 4th to 11th {Holothurians). 

 ]\Ienon, E., August 24th to October 13th {Nervous System of Mollusca). 

 Riches, T. H., B.A., January 13th to December 10th {Nemertines). 

 Scott, S. D., B.A., July 28th to November 20th {Ascidians). 



Early in December we received a visit from a party of four fishermen, 

 who, under the auspices of the Technical Education Committee of the 

 Aberdeenshire County Council, were making a tour of the varioifs fishing 

 centres of England and Scotland, accompanied by Mr. liobert TurnbuU, 

 B.Sc, who acted as instructor. "We arranged for two lectures on the 

 Natural History of Eishes to be given for the benefit of the party, and 

 assisted them as much as possible in seeing the various methods of 

 fisliing practised in this port. 



Mr. F. B. Stead, who has been working at food fishes at Plymouth, 

 has left for Naples, where he is at present occupying the Cambridge 



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