LETTER FROM W. T. GRENFELL, ESQ. 147 
abundant evidences of organic life. Our preparation, however, both 
for collecting and storing had been very insufficient, and not much 
was done in collecting with surface nets or dredges. We sail again 
about May the 30th from the west coast of England, but we shall 
again be greatly hampered on so broken and so badly charted a coast, 
as the necessary funds have not come to hand to allow of the pur- 
chase of a small steam launch to tend the vessel. 
W. 'T’. GRENFELL, 
Council of the Marine Biological Association. 
Norz.—Mr. Grenfell, who made surface collections for the Associ- 
ation some time since (Journ. Mar. Biol. Ass., Vol. I, p. 376), and 
was supplied by us with deep-sea thermometers for his last voyage, 
left England again in May for Newfoundland and Labrador, taking 
with him apparatus for a more elaborate scheme of work; it is 
hoped that his observations will throw further light on the move- 
ments and habits of the cod as affected by their food, &c. For such 
observations no better locality could be selected than the Newfound- 
land banks.—G. H. F. 
