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Director's Report. 



In accordance witli a resolution of Council, I entered on my duties 

 as Director on the 29th of November last. 



On December 16tli, Mr. Grarstang, who had acted as assistant 

 since the opening of the Laboratory, intimated that he had been 

 successful in obtaining the Berkeley Fellowship at Owens College, 

 and would require to take up his residence in Manchester at the 

 commencement of the Winter term. Mr. Garstang left on the 30th 

 of December, and on the 24th of January, his successor, Mr. H. N. 

 Dickson, F.R.S.E., F.E.M.S., arrived. 



Mr, Dickson is a physicist rather than a biologist, and has been 

 identified for some years with the Scottish Meteorological Society, 

 Ben Nevis Observatory, and the Challenger Office. In securing his 

 services I desired to broaden the Association's range of observation 

 by combining this branch of science with the biological work already 

 in progress. In all questions concerning movements, migrations, 

 and spawning of fishes, as well as the movements of their food, I 

 am convinced that both the temperature and currents of the sea must 

 be considered, and that a thorough knowledge cannot be obtained 

 except by the combination of biological and physical observations. 



The Council having signified its approval, physical work having 

 in fact been a part of the original design of the Association, a scheme 

 of work has been organised with the hope of eventually obtaining 

 some valuable results in practical fisheiy questions. Observations 

 will be taken systematically in the Channel, and in the harbours 

 and estuaries in the neighbourhood, with the view of following 

 changes in temperature and density at different seasons of the year 

 and in different years. These observations will be discussed in 

 relation to what fishery statistics are available. Efforts are also 



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