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have taken part, and to all these our thanks are due. In the collecting 

 work we had the assistance of Mr. Garstang for several days, as well as 

 Messrs. A. D. Darbishire and W, M. Aders. In the determination of 

 the species there has been considerable division of labour. With the 

 exception of the Polynoida, which were identified by Mr. Hodgson, 

 Mr. Allen is responsible for the Polychpeta, which have proved, perhaps, 

 the most interesting group of all, quite a number of Montagu's species 

 being rediscovered, and several new additions being made to British 

 records. The Mollusca were identified by Mr. Todd, as well as the 

 Decapoda, Amphipoda, and Isopoda amongst the Crustacea. Mr. W. I. 

 Beaumont has named the Mysidae, Mr. Garstang and Mr. L. W. Byrne 

 the Fishes, Mr. A. E. Shipley the Gephyrea, Mr. E. C. Punnett and 

 Mr, Beaumont the majority of the Nemertina, and Mr. E. H. Worth 

 the Foraminifera. For the other groups Mr. Allen and Mr. Todd are 

 jointly responsible. 



An account of the plankton is not included in the present report, 

 but collections w^ere regularly made and sent to Mr. E. T. Browne, who 

 has undertaken to report upon them. 



We are also greatly indebted to Mr. J. Luskey Goad, of Salcombe, 

 a gentleman who during the summer months makes seine and trammel 

 fishiog a recreation which he pursues with great diligence, for the 

 account of the fishes which have frequented the harbour during the 

 present summer and of the general character of the fishing. 



II. The Physical Conditions Prevailing in the Salcombe Estuary. 



For the purposes of this report the whole Salcombe estuary may be 

 conveniently divided into three principal portions, which will be 

 readily recognised on the accompanying chart, and will be referred 

 to as (1) the Kingsbridge estuary, extending from Kingsbridge to 

 Snape's Point; (2) Salcombe Harbour, from Snape's Point to Sandhill 

 Point ; and (3) the region between the latter point and the bar, which 

 is generally referred to as " outside the harbour." 



In its general geographical features the Salcombe estuary resembles 

 many of the other estuaries on the south coast of Devon and Cornwall, 

 more especially Dartmouth, Fowey, and Falmouth. Outside the harbour 

 proper there is a large area more or less sheltered on the east and west 

 by high land, but fully exposed to the south. This area is bounded on 

 the seaward side by a bar of sand, stretching from the eastern to the 

 western land and covered only by a few feet of water at low tide, 

 and on the harbour side converges to a narrow mouth, which forms the 

 entrance to Salcombe Harbour proper. Inside the mouth, the harbour 

 widens considerably, and its general direction turns somewhat to the 



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