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capacity should suffice for a week's consumption. A vessel of this size 

 will make much more extended work possible, and can be used for 

 carrying out investigations over the whole of the English Channel and 

 the southern parts of the North Sea. 



In considering the low price at which this steamer was purchased, it 

 must be recognised that within the next two or three years she will 

 probably require a new boiler. 



The Council was encouraged to face the additional expenditure 

 which the maintenance of a vessel of this size will involve by the 

 promise of the following donations towards a fund for the working 

 expenses of the first four years, viz. G. P. Bidder, Esq., £200, T. H. 

 Itiches, Esq., £100, the Hon. E. Guinness, £20, The thanks of the 

 Association are due to these gentlemen for their timely generosity. 



The floating laboratory Dauii, kindly placed at the disposal of the 

 Association by Mr. J. W. Woodall, was stationed last summer at 

 Salcombe, and proved very suitable for the work required of her. 

 Mr. Woodall has now further improved the boat by the addition of 

 a well-lighted deck-house, which will be used as a workroom. She 

 will be stationed this season at Exmouth. 



During the winter months most of the collecting work at Plymouth 

 was done with the sailing boat Anton Bohrn. 



The Staff. 



In consequence of an arrangement made with the Technical In- 

 struction Committees of the Devon County Council and the Plymouth 

 Borough Council, an additional naturalist for "fishery research has just 

 been added to the staff, the gentleman appointed being Dr. H. M. Kyle, 

 of the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. Dr. Kyle will spend 

 a portion of his time in conducting classes at the Plymouth Laboratory 

 for the technical instruction of fishermen and in visiting the dilfereut 

 fishing centres in the county for a similar purpose, whilst the remainder 

 will be spent in carrying out fishery investigations. 



By an arrangement with the Plymouth Technical School, the bio- 

 logical lecturer at that institution has been granted the free use of a 

 table at the Laboratory on condition that he undertakes a definite 

 research approved by the officers of the Association. This table has 

 been occupied during the year by Mr. Stuart Thomson, who has been 

 engaged in an investigation having an important bearing upon practical 

 fishery questions. 



The other members of the staff remain as before, namely the Director 

 (Dr. E. J. Allen), the Naturalist in Charge of Fishery Investigations 

 (Mr. Walter Garstang), and the Director's Assistant (Mr. E. A. Todd). 



