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Marine Biological Association of the 
United Kingdom. 
Report of the Council, 1915. 
The Council and Officers. 
Four ordinary meetings of the Council were held during the year, at 
which the average attendance was nine. During the Easter Vacation a 
Committee of the Council visited and inspected the Laboratory at 
Plymouth. 
The Association has suffered a great loss during the year through the 
death of Mr. J. A. Travers, who was for eighteen years its Honorary 
Treasurer. During his term of office Mr. Travers worked hard in the 
interests of the Association, and his advocacy of the practical value of 
the scientific fishery work which was being undertaken did much to 
ensure the continued progress of our investigations. 
The Council elected Mr. George Evans, lately Prime Warden of the 
Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, to succeed Mr. Travers as Honorary 
Treasurer. 
The Council desires to express its thanks to the Royal Society for the 
use of the Rooms at Burlington House in which its meetings have been 
held. 
The Plymouth Laboratory. 
The buildings, fittings and machinery at Plymouth have been kept in 
a state of efficient repair, but owing to the war all expenditure has been 
kept at the lowest possible limit. It has been necessary, however, to 
effect some repairs to the Shone’s ejector, which pumps water from the 
sea, and the small gas-engine used for circulating sea-water through the 
Aquarium and Laboratory tanks has been fitted with a new piston and 
cylinder liner. 
The Boats. 
The steamer Oithona has not been put in commission this year. All 
the collecting work which has been possible has been done with the 
small sailing boat built for the Association two years ago. The motor 
boat given to us by Colonel G. M. Giles was sold early in the year for the 
sum of £35, as there was little prospect of making use of her for some time 
to come. 
