Eeport on the Investigations carried on in 1894 

 in connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory at University College, Liverpool. 



By Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.E.S., and 

 Mr. Andrew Scott, Fisheries Assistant. 



Introductory. 

 This, the Third Annual Eeport of the Lancashire Sea- 

 Fisheries Laboratory, contains an account of the work 

 done during the past year, 1894, in endeavouring to 

 carry out the scheme of investigations drawn up by 

 Prof. Herdman when the Laboratory was established 

 in 1892, and is necessarily, to a considerable extent, a 

 continuation of what has already been published in the 

 two former Eeports. One new line of enquiry this 

 year is the investigation, by means of "drift bottles,' 

 of the tidal and other currents in the Irish Sea, which 

 would affect the distribution of small floating bodies, 

 such as fish eggs and surface food (see below). 



Part of the work has been carried out on board the 

 fisheries steamer " John Fell," while making the usual 

 periodical visits to the in-shore and off-shore fishing 

 grounds of the district and adjacent parts of the Irish 

 Sea. The fishery officers, under the Committee, have 

 kept us supplied with material from their respective 

 districts. Owing to the resignation of two fishery 

 ofiicers, this part of the work has been somewhat 

 interrupted during the latter part of the year, and, 

 consequently, the number of small fish sent in for 

 examination has been rather less than in former years. 

 This reduction in the number of fish is, however, counter- 



