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during the summer of 1890 by her breaking down when the 

 Laboratory was full of workers. The terrible storm which swept 

 over the west of England on March 9th last did extensive damage 

 both to the '^ Firefly " and to the '' Anton Dohrn/^ since repaired ; 

 the three-ton dandy " Mabel/^ which fortunately escaped injury 

 on that occasion^ is also in working order. 



Considerable additions have been made to the Library during 

 the year^ the most important of which consists of the large and 

 valuable collection of works on Crustacea belonging to the late 

 C. Spence Bate, Esq.j F.R.S., which have been presented by 

 Captain McGuire Bate. Among other valuable donations are the 

 following : 



Presented hy 

 Bull, and Mem. Miis. Comp. Zool., Harvard College . . Prof. Agassiz. 



Proc. and Phil. Trans., Royal Society of London . . The Society. 



Mem. Roy. Acad, of Copenhagen .... The Academy. 



Bull, and Rep. United States Fish Commission . . The Commission. 



Journ. Royal Microscopical Society .... The Society. 



Results of the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition . . The Commission. 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science . . Messrs. Churchill. 



Mittheil. Zool. Station in Neapel . . . Dr. Anton Dohrn. 



Bull. Scientifique de France et de laBelgique . . . . Prof. Giard. 



Mittheil. deutscher Fischerei-Yerein .... The Society. 



Notarisia . . . . . . . . Dr Morenos. 



Ber. Kommission wissensch. Untersuch. deutschen Meere . The Commission. 

 Proc. and Bull. United States National Museum . . The Museum. 



Tijdschrift Nederlandsche Dierkund. Yereeniging . . The Society. 



Journal of the Linnsean Society ..... The Society. 



Bergens Museum Aarsberetning ..... The Museum. 



Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo . . . The College. 



Trans. Royal Society of Edinburgh .... The Society. 



The Council beg to tender the thanks of the Association to the 

 donors of these and of many other publications. 



At the end of July last Mr. G. C. Bourne tendered his resignation of 

 the post of Director of the Laboratory to the Emergency Committee, 

 and Dr. G. H. Fowler was appointed ad interim Director for the 

 summer months. At a special meeting held on November 14th 

 Mr. W. L. Calderwood was appointed to succeed Mr. Bourne, and 

 entered on his duties on November 29th. The Director's Assistant, 

 Mr. AY alter Garstang, M.A., resigned in December last to take up a 

 Research Fellowship at the Owens College, Manchester ; and Mr. 

 Calderwood has appointed Mr. H. N. Dickson, F.R.M.S., F.R.S.E., in 

 his place. Mr. F. Hughes, of the Finsbury Technical College, has been 

 recently appointed to carry out an inquiry from the chemical side into 

 the possibility of manufacturing an artificial bait for long-line fish- 



