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the building and appliances which have come into existence 

 through their labours. Through Mr. E. L. Beckwith^ the 

 representative of the Company on the Council of the 

 Association, the Members of the Council have been invited 

 to travel to and from Plymouth and to stay there on the 

 occasion of the ceremony of June 30th as the guests of the 

 Fishmongers^ Company. The Council desire not only to 

 record their appreciation of the kind consideration shown 

 by this invitation, but to express the belief that the oppor- 

 tunity thus afforded to the Council of inspecting- the 

 arrangements of the Laboratory will be of advantage to the 

 Association. 



II. On July 26th last Mr. J. T. Cunningham, Fellow of 

 University College, Oxford, was appointed Natui-alist to 

 the Association, and at once proceeded to Plymouth, where 

 he has since been steadily occupied in the investigation of 

 the breeding and general natural history of food fishes, 

 especially of the sole, conger, pilchard, and herring. He 

 has furnished the Council with quarterly reports of the 

 work done by him, and will shortly be in a position to 

 publish some results. 



III. Mr. W. F. R. Weldon, Fellow of St. John^s College, 

 Cambridge, has spent some months at the Laboratory in 

 the study of tlie development of the common lobster and of 

 the spiny lobster, and in a general study of the Crustacea 

 of the Sound. In this work Mr. Weldon has been assisted, 

 so far as expenditure on boats, fishermen, and material is 

 concerned, by a grant from the Government Grant Fund of 

 the Royal Society, entrusted by the Government Grant 

 Committee to the President of the Association, the Hon. 

 Secretary, Prof. Moseley, and Mr. Adam Sedgwick. 



ly. In October Mr. Walter Heape resigned the post of 

 Resident Superintendent, his resignation taking effect in 

 March. The Council determined to appoint, in succession 

 to Mr. Heape, a Director who should be also Secretary of 

 the Association, and attend the meetings of the Council in 

 London. In addition to the salary of £200 a year and a 

 residence, the Council agreed to provide the new Director 

 with funds for the payment of a clerk -assistant. The 



