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Report of the Council of the Marine Biological 

 Association for the year 1887-88. 



PRESENTED AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF 

 THE ASSOCIATION, HELD ON JUNE 27th, 1888, IN THE ROOMS 

 OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, BURLINGTON HOUSE, LONDON. 



I. The Council has met twelve times since the last 

 Annual General Meeting of the Association in June, 1887. 

 The business transacted by the Council has chiefly had 

 reference to the completion of the machinery and fittings of 

 the Plymouth Laboratory. The Council report that the 

 Laboratory is now complete, the apparatus for pumping and 

 circulating sea-water is at work, the tanks are stocked with 

 various fishes and other marine animals and plants, the 

 work-rooms are fitted and actually occupied by naturalists, 

 and a considerable collection of books of reference on 

 marine zoology and botany and on fishery questions is in 

 place in the Library, 



On Saturday, June 30th, as already announced to the 

 Members of the Association, the Council will formally 

 open the Laboratory at Plymouth. They have great plea- 

 sure in acknowledging the generous assistance afforded 

 to them on this occasion by the Court of the Fishmongers' 

 Company, who not only will be represented at the cere- 

 mony by the Prime Warden and other members, but have 

 invited the Members of the Association to a banquet 

 at Plymouth in celebration of the opening of the Labora- 

 tory. The interest taken by the Fishmongers' Company 

 in the affairs of the Association has further led them 

 to take a step which will ensure the attendance of nearly 

 all the Members of the Council of the Association at 

 Plymouth on June 30th, and will enable them to examine 



