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Report of the Council, 1905-6. 



The Council and Officers. 



The Council have met on five occasions during the year, and the 

 average attendance at the meetings has been ten. The meetings 

 have been held in the Eooms of the lloyal Society, and the Council 

 have again to express their thanks to the Koyal Society for their 

 hospitality. 



Committees of the Council, as in previous years, have visited the 

 Laboratories at Plymouth and Lowestoft and inspected the work which 

 is being carried on. 



The Council have to record with regret the deaths of Sir J. Burdon 

 Sanderson, Bart., f.r.s., the representative of the University of Oxford 

 on the Council ; of Rear-Admiral Sir W. J. L. Wharton, k.c.b., f.r.s., a 

 Vice-President of the Association ; and of Professor W. P, R. Weldon, 

 F.R.S., a Member of Council since 1888. 



The Laboratories. 



A somewhat simpler system of circulating the sea water through the 

 tanks at the Plymouth Laboratory with a new pattern of pump has 

 been in operation during the greater part of the year and has proved 

 successful. It is hoped that some saving in the expenses for repairs 

 will result. Experiments on the rearing of marine organisms under 

 laboratory conditions have been continued with success. 



For the North Sea work in connexion with the International Fishery 

 Investigations, new and larger premises have been rented at Lowestoft, 

 which allow of the researches being carried on with much greater con- 

 venience than in the old establishment. 



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