a2 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
25.—_THE RELATION OF BRAIN SURFACE TO BODY 
SURFACE. 
By ALEx. SUTHERLAND, M.A. 
26.—RESERVE FERTILITY IN BIRDS. 
By ALex. SUTHERLAND, M.A. 
27.—WOMAN’S BRAIN. 
By ALEX. SUTHERLAND, M.A. 
28.—ON CERTAIN POINTS IN THE ANATOMY OF 
AUSTRALIAN EARTH-WORMS. 
By GrorGina SwEeEt, M.Sc. 
29.—THE PROPOSED BIOLOGICAL STATION AND MARINE 
FISH HATCHERY NEAR DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND. 
(Communicated by Geo. M. Tomson, F.L.S.) 
At the meeting of the Association held in Sydney in January, 
1898, a communication was received on the above subject, in 
the form of a letter from me addressed to Captain Hutton. In 
this I narrated the steps which had been taken by the Otago In- 
stitute up to 3lst December, 1897, to establish a marine 
biological station near Dunedin, and concluded with an expres- 
sion of the hope that at the next meeting of the Association it 
would be possible to present a report of the work done at the 
Purakanui Fish Hatchery. 
As stated in my letter, the New Zealand Government were 
asked to vote the sum of £500 towards the project during the 
session of 1897. The sum actually passed on the Estimates was 
£750, but this amount was voted “ for Fish Hatcheries and ex- 
penses of Expert Ayson to Canada and America ;” and, further, 
it was stated “that nothing will be done by the Government in 
the matter of establishing hatcheries pending the return of the 
expert.” 
