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Report on the Surface Drift of the English Channel 

 and neighbouring Seas during 1897. 



By 



Walter Garstang, M.A., 



Naturalist in charge of Fishery Investigations, M.B.A. 



I. 



II. 

 III. 



I. Introduction. 



Some eighteen months ago the Director of the Plymouth Laboratory 

 of the Marine Biological Association decided to carry out a series of 

 investigations concerning the surface currents of the English Channel 

 at different seasons of the year, and for a series of years, by means of 

 properly devised floating bodies which would attract attention when 

 stranded on the shore, and the recovery of which could without diffi- 

 culty be recorded. At the commencement of the investigation 

 Mr. Allen communicated his scheme to the editors of the west-country 

 Press, and these gentlemen kindly gave publicity to the plan, the success 

 of which depended very largely upon the co-operation of residents and 

 visitors frequenting the sea-shore. Mr. Allen's letter expresses so 

 clearly the object and method of the investigation, that I cannot do 

 better than reproduce it here : — 



