Report on the Investigations carried on in 1898 in 

 connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory at University College, Liverpool, and 

 the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel, near Barrow. 



Drawn up by Professor W. A. Hekdman, F.R.S., Honorary 



WitJt Compliments from 



Pr.oFEssoji W. A. HEBDMAN, F.B.S., 

 University College, 



Liverpool. 



who icill he glad to receive your publications in 

 exchange. 



.ott's work at 

 Piel Hatchery and of Mr. Johnstone's work at the 

 Liverpool Laboratory, and a glance merely at the above 

 table of contents will show the extent and variety of the 

 investigations that have been undertaken. 



Mr. Scott's work has been in the main economic — the 

 hatching of eggs of marketable fishes and the improve- 

 ment of apparatus and fittings so as to carry on such 

 work more efiiciently in the future. He has also, however, 

 examined many tow-net gatherings and other samples of 

 the organisms in the waters and on the shores of our 

 district, and has carried out a further series of experi- 



