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additions of older fish throughout the season, and with these 
additions the quality—never good—improved. 
A large quantity of data has been accumulated relating to 
the growth of the herring, but is not here published unless it 
refers to shoals not previously sampled. 
Further sampling of Yarmouth shoals points to recovering 
spents remaining in Yarmouth waters until June. Whilst the 
Firth of Forth shoals appear to have received additions from 
the 1918 year-class, there is no datum which points to their 
being recruits from the 1917 year-class. The Firth of Clyde 
herrings differ in growth from those of the north-west of 
Ireland and to a less extent, and only in later years from the 
fish of the Irish Sea. 
Attention is drawn to the formation of a new spawning 
ground for spring herrings in our district. For two years now 
shoals have spawned between Holy Island and Berwick in 12 to 
15 fathoms. 
Mrs. Cowan reports on the size of the herrings examined. 
From the differences found between the samples from the 
Shetlands in July and August it is evident that many shoals 
frequent these northern waters, and further work is necessary 
before a full knowledge of their number can be obtained. To 
a less extent. the same applies to the shoals of the north-west 
of Ireland and those of the north of Scotland, between the 
Sutherlandshire coast and the Butt of Lewis. The Irish Sea 
samples show these herrings to be of a much smaller size than 
those examined from the north-west coast of Ireland. 
Mr. Storrow in a paper entitled ‘‘ Notes suggestive of further 
work in Herring Investigations’ has brought together a number 
of facts and coincidences which are worthy of consideration. 
Some of the results of the work in biochemistry are com- 
municated in three short papers by Miss Meek. In that relating 
to the salinity of the inshore waters, attention is drawn to the 
influence of the ebb tide in bringing water of low salinity 
