The experiments in mussel culture at Fenham Flats, Holy 

 Island, were, as has been indicated in previous reports, so far 

 successful as to warrant our advising the Northumberland Sea 

 Fisheries Committee to take steps to form a mussel bed there, 

 sufficiently large at least to supply the district. The Committee 

 are wilhng to enter upon an undertaking of this kind, but legal 

 difficulties have intervened, and at the moment some other 

 method appears to be necessary, and will likely be adopted. 

 A report of a sub-committee appointed to inspect the bed is 

 given. The general question of the fate of the larval stage is 

 discussed, the conclusion being that usually each region where 

 mussels are cultivated or are naturally deposited obtains its 

 spat from places on the current side of the position. 



In previous reports we have drawn attention to the serious 

 nature of the pollution of the Tyne in the neighbourhood of 

 Newcastle. This yeen in May a spell of dry weather made the 

 Tyne so poisonous that descending kelts and smolts were 

 destroyed, and even sea fish in the young condition which had 

 been drifted up the river. It is suggested that a scheme of 

 town planning in Newcastle and Gateshead should include the 

 cleaning of the river by all concerned. The manufacturers and 

 the cities should take steps to treat the effluents so as to render 

 them innocuous before they are poured into the river. 



Miss 0. M. Jorgensen, B.Sc, Research Student, in sj)ite of 

 the fact that her time was taken up to a large extent as Demon- 

 strator in Zoology, carried on a research on the early stages of 

 development of the common shore sponge, Grantia comprcssa. 

 She has come to the conclusion, like Dendy and others, that 



