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Marine Mological Association of the United Aingdom. 
Report of the Council, 1893-94. 
The Council. 
The Council has met on nine occasions during the past year 
for the transaction of the business of the Association. Of these the 
meeting on May 12th was held at the Plymouth Laboratory. The 
average attendance at these meetings has been six. No vacancy 
has occurred in the course of the year. 
The Council has again to acknowledge the courtesy of the Royal 
Society in granting the use of its rooms for the various meetings of 
the Association. 
By the death of Mr. John Bayly, of Plymouth, the Association has 
lost one of its first and most generous supporters, who had been a 
Governor almost from the commencement ; and, by the death of Prof, 
A. Milnes Marshall, a member of the first Council of the Association 
in 1884. 
The Plymouth Laboratory. 
The Council is able to report satisfactorily of the condition of the 
building, fittings, and machinery at the Plymouth Laboratory, with 
the exception of some leakage in the large reservoirs, which will be 
repaired shortly. The Hjector, by which sea water is thrown up to 
the Laboratory reservoirs, and the rotary pumps by which the 
circulation is maintained, have lately been overhauled and placed in 
thorough repair. 
The Boats. 
It is greatly to be regretted that there is no immediate prospect 
of a satisfactory boat being obtained by the Association : the question 
