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appears on page 433. General work on the plankton has also 
been continued by Miss Lebour, who has been assisted in this by 
Miss Webb. 
Two numbers of the Journal have been published during the year. 
The first, which was issued in May, contained three papers by Miss 
Lebour on the microplankton of Plymouth Sound, on the Peridiniales of 
Plymouth and on some parasites of Sagitta. The first of these papers 
contained the results obtained from the examination of centrifuged 
samples of sea-water taken at regular intervals during one complete 
year, so that seasonal variations are shown. In the same number appears 
Dr. Allen’s report on the larval and young stages of fishes collected during 
the summer of 1914, this report being a continuation of work carried out 
for 1913 by Mr. R. S. Clark and reported upon by him in an earlier num- 
ber of the Journal. Mr. D. J. Matthews contributes the second part of 
his paper on the amount of phosphoric acid in the sea-water off Plymouth 
Sound, in which the seasonal variations in the amount of that substance 
are recorded. 
The second number of the Journal, issued in December, contains a 
detailed report, by Dr. Allen and Mrs. E. W. Sexton, of experiments on 
the inheritance of eye-colour and the loss of the eye-pigment in the 
Amphipod Gammarus chevreuxi. Three papers of a general character by 
Dr. Allen, in which the results of work done at the Laboratory are set 
forth in a more popular form, complete the number. These papers are 
entitled, ‘“‘ Heredity in Plants, Animals, and Man,” “ Food from the Sea,” 
and “ The Age of Fishes and the Rate at which they Grow.” 
The Library. 
The thanks of the Association are again due to numerous Government 
Departments, Universities, and other institutions at home and abroad 
for copies of books and current numbers of periodicals presented to the 
Library. The list is similar to that published in the Reports of Council 
of former years. Thanks are due also to those authors who have sent 
reprints of their papers for the Library. 
Donations and Receipts. 
The receipts for the year include a grant from H.M. Treasury of £500, 
and one from the Fishmongers’ Company (£600). In addition to these 
grants there have been received Annual Subscriptions (£123), Rent of 
Tables in the Laboratory, including £25 from the University of London, 
and £20 from the Trustees of the Ray Lankester Fund (£45); Sale of 
Specimens (£371) and Admission to Tank Room (£84). 
