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The Boats. 



The Association's steamboat Busy Bee has continued to carry on the 

 regular collecting work of the station in the neighbourhood of Ply- 

 mouth and on the adjoining coast. On two occasions Mr. Garstang, 

 with the aid of a grant made by the British Association, has hired the 

 steam-tug Stormcock for runs to Ushant and Parson's Bank, in connection 

 with his researches on the temperature and floating fauna of the waters 

 at the mouth of the Channel. 



The Staff. 



]\Ir. Holt, who has been appointed to take charge of the fishery in- 

 vestigations of the Eoyal Dublin Society, has left Plymouth for the 

 West of Ireland. By arrangement with the Royal Dublin Society, 

 Mr. Holt will still retain his position of Honorary Naturalist on the 

 staff of the Marine Biological Association. 



Mr. E. A. Todd, b.Sc, has been appointed Assistant to the Director at 

 a salary of £80 per annum. 



In other respects the staff remains as it was last year. 



The Library. 



The Library continues to grow, and it has been again necessary to 

 increase the shelf accommodation. 



The Council has been fortunate in securing a most useful collection 

 of monographs and pamphlets on the Hydrozoa and Polyzoa from the 

 library of the late Ptev. Thomas Hincks. 



The thanks of the Association are due for the following books and 

 current numbers of periodicals presented to the Library during the 

 year : — 



Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 



Transactions and Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 



Zoological Record. 



Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. (Bristol, 1899.) 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. 



Microscopical Journal. Vols, i.-xviii. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. 



31 vols. (1878-1897). (Presented by Sir Cuthbert Peek, Bart.) 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. (Presented by Messrs. J. and A. 



Churchill.) 

 ' Report of H.M. Inspectors of Fisheries. . {England and Wales.) 

 Catalogue of the Radcliffe Library, Oxford. 

 Annual Report of the Horniman Museum. 



The Fisherman's Nautical Almanack and Tide Table. (O. T. Olsen, Grimsby.) 

 Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty 



Islands, and elsewhere. Dr. A. AVilley. 

 The Cambridge Natural History. (Presented liy the Editors.) 



