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expenditure is calculated ou an extremely economical scale. 

 The Council feel confident that as the work of the Laboratory 

 progresses and becomes generally known additional funds 

 will be forthcoming for the pi'osecution of its objects. 



At the present moment the most serious deficiency in the 

 equipment of the Laboratory is the want of a small steam 

 vessel which can be used by the Staff of the Laboratory 

 for the purpose of exploring the fishing grounds of the 

 neighboui'hood of Plymouth. A special appeal for funds 

 for the purchase and maintenance of such a steamer has 

 been drawn up by the Director and authorized by the Council 

 of the Association, and it is hoped that those who visit the 

 Laboratory on the 30th may mark their approval of the 

 arrangements there made by starting the steamboat fund. 



VI. The Council has adopted the following regulations 

 with reference to the admission of naturalists to the use of 

 the Laboratory : 



(1) Any Grovernor or Founder of the Association is entitled to 

 occupy 171 projjrid persona a table at the Plymouth Laboratoxy 

 without payment. He shall also have the privilege, upon signify- 

 ing to the Director his intention to forego permanently the right of 

 personally occupying a table in the Laboratory, of nominating an 

 eligible person to make use of a table for one month in each year 

 free of charge. 



(2) The charge for a table shall be ,£40 a year, =£25 for a half 

 year, and £5 for a month, to be paid in advance. No table shall 

 be let for less than a month, and the monthly charge shall be as 

 above for any number of months less than six. 



(3) Members of the Association have the first claim to become 

 renters of tables. 



(4) Life Members of the Association are entitled to occupy in 

 propria persona a table at a reduction oi one fourth from the above 

 rates. 



(5) The Council of the Association may remit, in whole or in 

 part, the payment of rent for a table in special cases. No charge 

 will be made to a State-recognised authority for the use of a table. 



(6) Applications from Members and others desiring to occupy 

 tables must be made to the Director of the Laboratory of the 

 Marine Biological Association, Plymouth. 



(7) The Association undertakes, so far as possible, to supply 

 the material required for any investigation, and such facilities 

 for obtaining it as may be at the command of the Association. 



(8) The Association supplies to the occupant of each table 

 ordinary glass jars, dissecting dishes, bottles, pans, &c., not to be 



