274 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
contribute pound for pound, and undertaking to grant a sum 
annually for maintenance for a term of years. These votes are 
still available. The Government have since voted various sums 
towards the movement, and have set aside 6 acres of the eastern 
half of the waterway of the Purakanui Inlet as a site for the 
establishment.” 
Objects of the Establishment.—(1) To institute scientific in- 
vestigations on the marine fish fauna: (a) Physical, viz., tem- 
perature and density of the sea at various seasons, depths, &c., 
currents, &e.; (4) Biological, viz., study of the development and 
life history of the local fishes, their food supply, &c., and of the 
marine invertebrate fauna. (2) To collect and hatch out eggs of 
various local marine fishes and to distribute them. (3) To in- 
troduce and rear desirable species of foreign fishes (including 
lobsters and crabs). 
Buildings Required.—(a) One or more tidal ponds in which to 
place any fish, native or introduced, while under investigation ; 
(6) spawning pond for ripe fish; (¢) a building to serve as a 
spawn-collecting chamber; (d¢) a _ hatching-house, containing 
boxes, &c., in which the ova are hatched out; (e) tank-house, 
fitted with boiler and pump; (f) laboratory. Probably the last 
four could be erected under one roof, but this is a detail. In 
1895, Mr. G. M. Barr, C.E., estimated that these buildings, 
erected on the same scale as those of the Scotch Fishery Board at 
their Dunbar establishment, would cost £550. <A curator’s 
house, with rooms added, in which students and experts who 
were engaged in research work could be accommodated, would 
also be required. 
Control.—-It is suggested that the Professor of Biology for the 
time being in the University of Otago be appointed by the 
Government as the honorary scientific director of the establish- 
ment, and that he be aided by a board of, say, six members, 
two nominated by the Government, two by the Otago Institute, 
and two by the Otago Acclimatisation Society, such board to be 
elected annually, or for such periods as the Government may 
decide, and to report annually to the Minister at the head of the 
Marine Department.” 
After discussion, Mr. Thomson’s memorandum was unani- 
mously agreed to, and the opinion was expressed by Mr. Ayson 
that the Government would do everything in their power to 
help the two contributing bodies in the movement. 
This is the stage at which the matter now stands, and again 
I would express the hope that ere the Association again meets 
there may be some more definite progress to report. 
