436 REPORT ON TKAWLINO AND OTHER INVESTIGATIONS 



The new investigations were placed in the hands of Dr. H. M. Kyle, 

 on his appointment as Assistant Naturalist to the Association, and were 

 carried out by him at nearly regular monthly intervals from the end of 

 July, 1901, to the beginning of September, 1902, by means of the 

 Association's s.s. Oithona, and with the assistance from time to time of 

 various members of the staff, especially Mr. Todd. Mr. L. W. Byrne, 

 during his visits to the Plymouth Laboratory, also volunteered his assist- 

 ance in the work at sea on several occasions. 



In addition to the trawling investigations, Dr. Kyle arranged for the 

 collection of special statistics dealing with the Brixham fisheries. 

 These covered the period from the beginning of February, 1902, to the 

 end of January of the current year. 



The manuscript of Dr. Kyle's report was received in March, but 

 owing to difficulties in the work of revision which supervened after 

 Dr. Kyle's removal to Copenhagen, I received instructions from the 

 Council of the Association to draw up a new report, embodying as 

 much of Dr. Kyle's manuscript as might be possible, which accounts 

 for the delay which has taken place in the publication of the results. 

 With the exception of the tables dealing with the reproduction of the 

 plaice, which were prepared by Dr. Kyle, the figures representing the 

 Oithona's work in the present Report have all been compiled under my 

 supervision direct from the original log-books. Mr. T. C. Jerrom was 

 appointed to assist me in this work, and I have much pleasure in acknow- 

 ledging the care and accuracy in detail with which he has carried out 

 his task. The special statistics of the quantities of fish landed at 

 Brixham have been retained in the form in which they were submitted 

 by Dr. Kyle, except for the correction of some insignificant arithmetical i 

 errors. 



