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Report of the Council, 1908-9. 



The Council and Officers. 



Four ordinary meetings and one special meeting of the Council 

 have been held during the year, at which the average attendance has 

 been ten. 



The Laboratories at Plymouth and Lowestoft have both been visited 

 by Committees of the Council. 



The thanks of the Council are due to the Councils of the Eoyal 

 Society and of the Linnean Society for the use of their rooms for the 

 meetings. 



The Council have been requested by H.M. Government to continue 

 the work which they have been doing in connection with the Inter- 

 national Fishery Investigations for a further year. 



The Laboratories. 



Xo large repairs have been necessary to the buildings and machinery 

 at Plymouth. The new centrifugal pump has continued to give 

 satisfactory results, and the self-sown invertebrate fauna in the tanks 

 of the aquarium has been larger than usual. At Lowestoft, arrange- 

 ments have been made with the landlord of the house occupied by the 

 Association to continue the tenancy for a further year. 



The Boats. 



The steam-trawler Hu.vhy has carried out the international work in 

 tlie North Sea and English Channel. She was laid up at Plymouth 

 for three months during the winter. 



The Oithona has worked at Plymouth during the sunnner months, 

 the collecting in the winter being done, as in previous years, by the 

 sailing-boat Anton Dohrn. 



The Staff. 



Mr. R. A. Todd and Dr. W. Wallace have been promoted to the 

 rank of Naturalist, whilst Mr. G. T. Atkinson and Mr. H. J. B. 



