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Director's Report. 



The Eeport of the Council, which has already been in the hands of the 

 members of the Association for some months, and is reprinted in the 

 present number of the Journal, gives a summary of the history of 

 the Association and of the work which has been in progress since the 

 issue of the last Journal. 



It will be readily understood that the work of organising and com- 

 mencing to carry out a programme of investigations of the size of the 

 International scheme has placed a serious strain upon the members 

 of the old staff of the Association, and whilst expressing the regret 

 of myself and my colleagues at our apparent neglect in not having 

 for some time provided the Council with the material necessary for 

 the issue of a number of the Journal, I hope that during the next 

 few months we shall demonstrate, by the publication of work which 

 is on the verge of completion, that although silent we have not been 

 idle, and that steady and substantial progress has been made with the 

 various researches which we have in hand. 



The ordinary work of the Plymouth Laboratory has continued with 

 little if any interruption. The following naturalists have occupied 

 tables during the summer, that is to say, since the publication of the 

 list given in the Eeport of the Council on p. 640 : — 



The Rev. Canon Norman, f.r.s. {Crustacea). 



Prof. W. F. Pi. Weldon, f.r.s., Oxford ( Variation of Mollusca). 



Dr. E. G. Gardiner, Wood's Hole {Turhellaria). 



Dr. C. Shearer, Cambridge {Development of Folycliceta). 



G. F. Farran, b.a., Dublin {Nudihranchiata). 



G. P. Bidder, m.a., Cambridge (Method of measuring hottom currents 



in the sea). 

 J. S. Thomson, Plymouth (Fishes). 

 W. R. G. Bond, b.a., Oxford {General Zoology). 

 F. W. W. Griffin, b.a., Cambridge {Fishes). 

 F. Cavers, b.Sc, Plymouth. 

 Eev. A Cole, Berkhamstead {General Zoology). 

 Miss J. Sollas, Cambridge {Echinoderma). 

 Miss A. Kelly, Ph.d., Strassburg {Chemical Physiology). 

 Miss E. M. Clark, Cambridge (Polyzoa). 

 Miss E. Peacey, Oxford {General Zoology). 



