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can be obtained. The early post-larval stages of several 

 of the important round fishes so closely resemble each other 

 that even now there is a margin for doubt. It is only when 

 distinctive structural features or characteristic tints make 

 their appearance that certainty is obtainable. 



The proximity of the important mussel-beds at the mouth 

 of the Eden has afforded opportunities for investigating the 

 development and life-history of this species, and also for 

 cai'rying out experiments in mussel cultivation. These will 

 be embodied in a report on the subject for the managers 

 (Town Council of St, Andrew's) . 



The great advantages of easy access to the University 

 Museum and University Library have been from the first 

 conspicuous, and a source of satisfaction and benefit to the 

 workers. It would, indeed, be difficult to over estimate the 

 privileges of the Marine Laboratory in these respects. 



List of papers published since the opening of the St. Andrews 

 Marine Laboratory up to and including 1887. 



1. Report I to the Fishery Board for Scotland, 1884. 



2. Report on Trawling at the request of Lord Dalhousie, Chairman of 



the Trawling Commission, 1884-85. 



3. Report II to the Fishery Board for Scotland, 1885. (1 Plate.) 



4. Report III to the Fishery Board for Scotland up to 31st Decembei', 



1885. 



5. Report IV to the Fishery Board for Scotland (year 1886), 1887. 



The foregoing by Prof. McIntosh. 



6. On the Occurrence of Lumpenus lampetriformis off the East Coast of 



Scotland, by Francis Day. Proceed. Zool. Soc, 1884, p. 445. 

 (1 Plate.) 



7. Notes from the St. Andrews Marine Laboratory, I. A. On the 



British species of Cyanea. b. On the Reproduction of Mytilus 

 edidis. — Prof. McIntosh, Ann. Nat. Hist., Feb., 1885. 



8. Notes from the same, 11. On the Spawning of certain Marine 



Fishes (Herring, viviparous Blenny, Catfish, short-spined Cottus, 

 armed Bullhead, bimaculated Sucker, and Montagu's Sucker) ; 

 On Pelagic Ova, the Young of the Ling and the Eel. (1 Plate.) 

 —Ibid., Ann. Nat. Hist., June, 1885. 



9. Lecture on the Ova of Fishes. — Ibid., Nature, April, 1885. 



10. The Phosphorescence of Marine Animals, the Presidential Address 



to the Biological Section of the British Association, Sept. 1885. 

 —Ibid. 



11. Notes from the St. Andrew's Laboratory, III. A. On the Ova of 



Callionymus lyra. B. On a new British Staurocejjhalus. c. On 

 certain Processes formed by Cei'apus on Tiibularia indivisa, T>. 

 On certain Peculiar Ova from the Foi'th. E. On a Female 

 Porpoise. (1 Plate.)— Prof. McIntosh. 



