Tuor HATCHERY AND LABORATORY AT PIEL. 
At the end of last year’s Report, brief reference was 
made to the establishment of a Sea-Fish Hatchery and 
Station for experimental work at Roa Island, known to the 
post-office as Piel, in the Barrow Channel, and about five 
miles from Barrow. Piel is now connected with the 
mainland by a railway embankment, and there are several 
trains in the day, each way, from Barrow. The ‘“ Villa 
Marina” (appropriate name) has been secured by lease 
from the Furness Railway Co., by the Sea-Fisheries 
Committee, and has been modified and adapted to the 
new purposes—fisheries investigation and experiment— 
under the direction of the Scientific Sub-Committee. 
Two rooms and a passage on the ground floor have been 
thrown together to form a large, well-lighted laboratory, 
36 by over 20 feet, capable of affording comfortable work- 
ing space for six students or investigators. The former 
lifeboat house, measuring 44 by over 16 feet, has been 
connected with a room opening from the kitchen, and has 
been fitted up with aquaria and hatching tanks. It will 
be referred to in future as the tank-house: it is well 
lighted by both side windows and sky-lights. 
The rest of the house gives plenty of accommodation 
both for additional laboratories, if needed in the future, 
and for residential requirements. In addition to the 
kitchens and pantries, there are two public rooms, the 
dining-room and the library, a photographic dark-room, 
and three or four bed-rooms for the working naturalists. 
Two rooms upstairs have been handed over to the resident 
Scientific Assistant, Mr. Andrew Scott, and two to the 
resident bailiff, Mr. H. Richardson. Other rooms remain 
unfurnished, available for such purposes as may seem best 
as requirements develop. 
