XVill REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
is purely a financial one, and its solution is only to be found in the 
generosity of public companies or private individuals. It is impos- 
sible that a sea-going boat:can be purchased out of income, so long 
as the revenue of the Association is so small. During the past year 
the work of collection has been largely carried out by means of hired 
vessels, a method both expensive and unsatisfactory. The little 
sailing boat ‘Anton Dohrn ”’ is utilised whenever the weather permits, 
and is in good repair. 
The Library. 
The Library becomes annually more useful. Among the Fishery 
publications are included not only the official publications of the 
United Kingdom, of the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland ; 
of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, France, 
and Russia; but also the publications of local authorities and fishery 
societies at home and abroad. Among the results of various 
expeditions which are still in course of publication, may be men- 
tioned the publications of the German “ Plankton”? Expedition, of 
H.H. the Prince of Monaco, of the Norwegian North Atlantic 
Expedition, and of the expedition of the Danish gunboat Hauch. 
Gifts and exchanges have been made during the past year of the 
publications of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, the 
Zoological Society, the Royal Microscopical Society, the Academies 
of Copenhagen and Stockholm, the Harvard Museum, the Australian 
Museum, the Bergen Museum, the College of Science at Tokio, the 
Royal Society of Victoria, the Natural History Societies of Finland, 
Norway, the Netherlands, Boston (U.S.), and many others. To 
these Societies, and to the numerous donors of books and papers, 
the Council render the thanks of the Association. 
In addition to such gifts and exchanges, the Library purchases 
all the most important periodicals which bear upon marine zoology. 
The Museum and Exhibition Series. 
The type-collection of the Plymouth fauna has been materially 
added to during the past year. 
The series of specimens mounted for exhibition, to which reference 
was made in the last report of the Council, has been considerably 
increased, and has won great attention on the occasions on which it 
has been shown, viz. the meeting of the Museums Association in 
London, 1893, the soirée of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1894 ; 
the two soirées of the Royal Society, 1894 ; and the Cornwall Fisheries 
Exhibition, 1898. 
