40 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE 



Report of the Council of the Marine Biological 

 Association for the year 1886-87. 



PRESENTED AT THE THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE 

 ASSOCIATION, HELD ON JUNE 24th, 1887, IN THE ROOMS OF 

 THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, BURLINGTON HOUSE, LONDON. 



I. The Council lias met during the past year six times. 

 Its attention has been chiefly occupied with the superinten- 

 dence of the building and the fitting of the Laboratory at 

 Plymouth, and with making arrangements for the future 

 work of the Association in connection with the Laboratory. 

 A Committee of the Council have been actively engaged in 

 preparing plans for the fittings of the building, and the 

 plans thus carefully devised have been adopted by the 

 Council. It is expected that the Laboratory will be ready for 

 partial occupation in the present summer, but the tanks and 

 circulation of sea water cannot be completed for some months 

 to come. The Council has every reason to express satisfac- 

 tion with the progress which has been made with the build- 

 ing, and with the attention given to its construction by Mr. 

 Inglis, of Plymouth, the engineer to the Association. 



II. The Council has determined to employ a skilled 

 Naturalist at Plymouth (in addition to the Eesident Super- 

 intendent), to carry on investigations into the natural history 

 of British Marine Food-fishes, under the direction of the 

 Council. It has been determined to assign a salary of £250 

 a year to the Naturalist so employed, and an advertisement 

 has been printed in ' Nature ' and the * Atheneeum ' inviting 

 applications for the post. The applications are to be sent in 

 before or on June 30th, and the Council will make the 

 appointment in July. 



III. On the application of the Council the Government 

 Grant Committee of the Royal Society has placed a sum of 



