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Mr. E. W. Nelson is accompanying Captain Scott to the Antarctic as 

 biologist. 



Mr. L. E. Crawshay has resigned the post of Assistant-Director owing 

 to ill-health, and Mr. A. J. Mason-Jones has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as lecturer in biology at the Plymouth Technical Schools. 



An arrangement has been made by which the services of Mr, D. J. 

 Matthews will be partly retained by the Association. The Council 

 are glad to say that Mr. Matthews, Mr. Crawshay, and Mr. Mason-Jones 

 continue to work at the Laboratory. 



The Director, Dr. E. J. Allen, has delivered a course of twenty-four 

 lectures on Marine Biology and Fishery Investigations at the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology, South Kensington. During his 

 absence Mr. W. De Morgan acted as Deputy-Director. 



Occupation of Tables. 



The following Naturalists have occupied tables at the Plymouth 

 Laboratory during the year : — 



Prof. SvANTE Arrhennius, Stockholm (Experimental Embryology). 



W. De Morgan, Plymouth (Hybridization of Echinns). 



Gr. H. Drew, b.a., Plymouth (Experimental Pathology). 



J. S. DuNKERLY, B.sc, Lonclon (Protozoa). 



Prof. F. W. Gamble, f.r.s., Birmingham (Colour Physiology). 



E. S. Goodrich, f.r.s., Oxford (Fishes). 



G. H. Grosvenor, M.A., Oxford. 



Miss Harrison, Oxford (Experimental Embryology). 



M. D. Hill, m.a., Eton (Alcyonium). 



C. KiLLlAN, Freiburg (Laminaria). 



D. G. LiLLiE, Antarctic Expedition. 



Prof. Jacques Loeb, California (Experimental Embryology). 



W. XicoLL, M.D. (The Entozoa of Marine Fishes). 



Miss Poole, Oxford (Development of Tectibranchiata). 



Carr Saunders, m.a., Oxford (Development of Tectibranchiata). 



C. Shearer, m.a., Cambridge (Histriobdella and Dinophilus). 



Geoffrey Smith, m.a., Oxford (Bacteriology of Crabs). 



E. R. Speyer, Oxford (General Zoology). 



R. Whitehouse, m.sc, Birmingham (Fishes). 



Miss Gerarda Wijnhoff, Utrecht (Nemertines). 



W. Woodland, d.sc, London (Gobius). 



Miss YoNKER, Utrecht (General Zoology). 

 In addition to the above, nineteen students attended the Labora- 

 tory during the Easter vacation, when Mr. G. H. Grosvenor conducted 

 the usual course of instruction in Marine Biology. 



The Library. 



The thanks of the Association are due for the following books and 

 current numbers of periodicals presented to the Library during the 

 past year : — 



