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terms of the appointment were advertised in the ' Times/ 

 ' Athenaeum/ ' Nature/ and in the Plymouth newspapers. 

 There were twelve applications for the post, the list 

 including some of the most distinguished of the younger 

 naturalists of this country as well as foreigners. The 

 choice of the Council fell upon Mr. Gilbert C. Bourne, M.A., 

 Fellow of Isiew College, Oxford, who proceeded to Plymouth 

 in the beginning" of June, and has now entire charge of the 

 Laboratory and of the general business and correspondence 

 of the Association. 



The Honorary Secretary, Professor Lankester, retains his 

 office, but having during four years personally carried on the 

 correspondence and general management of the affairs of the 

 Association whilst its resources were in course of develop- 

 ment and organisation, he has expressed a desire, now thai 

 a solid and permanent realisation of the plans of the Asso- 

 ciation has been secured, to hand over the more laborious 

 portion of the Secretary's duties to a paid official. Accord- 

 ingly the Council has arranged to provide a salary for a 

 clerk who will assist Mr. Bourne, that gentleman acting as 

 both Resident Director of the Laboratory and Secretary of 

 the Association. 



V. Amongst donations to the funds of the Association 

 during the past year the Council has to report £100 from 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, £25 

 from the Goldsmiths' Company, and £25 from Sir Edward 

 Clarke, M.P., the Solicitor-General. The Treasurer's report 

 shows that on completion of the payments for the buildings 

 and fittings and Naturalist's salary, the Association will have 

 about £2000 in hand, apart from investments and annual 

 income, and that it will have disbursed up to the present 

 date about £13,700, of which £12,500 is represented in the 

 actual buildings, fittings, and machinery of the Laboratory. 

 The estimated income of the Association from subscriptions, 

 investments, and subsidies is £900. The Council have 

 determined to expend £440 a year for three years out of the 

 balance of £2000 mentioned above, in the general mainten- 

 ance of the Laboratory and Staff, so that during these three 

 years they have provided for a budget of £1340. This 



