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from the neighbourhood of the Eddystone to Start Point, which has 

 been carried on from time to time during the last four years, has been 

 continued by the Director of the Laboratory, and a lengthy paper, 

 illustrated with charts, has been published, embodying the results of 

 this work. Investigations of a similar kind are now being extended to 

 the inshore grounds. 



Occupation of Tables. 



In addition to the Officers employed by the Association, the following 

 naturalists have been engaged in research work at the Plymouth 

 Laboratory during the year : — 



W. I. Beaumont, B.A., Cambridge (Nemertina and Mywida)). 



G. P. Bidder, B.A., Cambridge (Sponges). 



G. Brebner, University College, Bristol (Marine Algse). 



E. G. Bullen (General Zoology). 



L. W. Byrne, B.A., Cambridge (Teleosteans). 



E. G. Gardiner, Ph.D., Woods Holl (Tiubellaria). 



J. F. Gemmill, M.A., M.B., Glasgow (General Zoology). 



Prof. G. GiLSON, Ph.D., Louvain (Polyclueta). 



E. Gurney, B.A., Oxford (Ecliinoderma). 



J. KiMDS, Ph.D., Louvain (Crustacea). 



Prof. E. W. MacBride, MA., Montreal (Ecliinoderma). 



C. A. MacMunn, M.D., Wolverhampton (Pigment of Aplysia). 



J. E. S. Moore, Eoyal College of Science (Fishing Apparatus). 



G. H. Pethybridge, B.Sc, London (Marine Algse). 



T. H. Taylor, M.A., Yorkshire College (Polyzoa). 



E. A. Todd, B.Sc, Yorkshire College (General Zoology). 



Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., Oxford (Variation of Crustacea). 



M. F. Woodward, Royal College of Science (Mollusca). 



Eleven students from Oxford, Cambridge, and Eton attended Mr. 

 Garstang's vacation class in Marine Biology. 



Published Memoirs. 



The following papers, either wholly or in part the outcome of work 



done at the Laboratory, have been published elsewhere than in the 



Journal of the Association : — 



Bidder, G. — The Skeleton and Classification of Calcareous Hponges. Proceed. Roy, 

 Soc, Ixiv., 1898, p. 61. 



Cunningham, J. T. — Contributions to the Knowledge of the Natural History of the 

 Lobster and Crab. Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornwall, xli\^, 1898. 



Garstang, W. — Preliminary Note on the Races and Migrations of the Mackerel 

 (Scomber scomber). Brit. Assoc. Report, Bristol, 1898. 



Garstang, W. — Recherches sur I ^Histoire Naturelle du Maquereau. Congrcs Inter- 

 national de Peches Maritimes, Dieppe, 1898. 



Holt, E. W. L. — Report on a Collection of very Young Fishes obtained by Dr. G. H. 

 Fowler in the Faeroe Channel. Proceed. Zool. Soc. London, .June, 1898. 



