Miss Robson lias similarly been working at Hydrozoa, and as 

 a Research Student will continue her work on the Coelenterates. 

 Miss Robson gives an account of 13 species new to the district, 

 and also some interesting observations on the habits of the 

 ephyra of Cyanea. 



Mr. Kramp, of Copenhagen, spent a few weeks here in June 

 working at the same group, and the lists which he sent confirm 

 three of the species new to the district recorded by Miss Robson. 



An account is given of the early development of the Teleostei, 

 with special reference to the origin of the entoderm and the 

 fate of the peripheral protoplasm. A short paper and a plate 

 also indicate the general development of the whiting. 



Mr. Wood has written a description of the compressed air 

 apparatus which was installed early this year, and has already 

 proved most useful. For this we have to thank again an anony- 

 mous donor. The apparatus was designed and constructed by 

 Messrs. Sleigh & Wood, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



This year also a valuable microscope was presented to the 

 Laboratory by Messrs. L. Evans and T. Davidson, in memory of 

 J. B. Evans, the brother of the former donor, who was interested 

 in Natural History. 



The coble in which Grace Darling and her father rescued, 

 on September 7th, 1838, the survivors of the " Forfarshire," has 

 now found a permanent home in the Laboratory. Lady John 

 Joicey-Cecil presented the boat to the Royal National Life-Boat 

 Institution with the request that it should remain in the County 

 of Northumberland. An arrangement has been made that a 

 proportion of the fees received from visitors to the Aquarium 

 will be handed over to the funds of the Life-Boat Institution. 



It is now my melancholy duty to record here the loss by 

 death of two leading members of the fishing community of 

 Northumberland. The trawl fisheries of North Shields lost 



