Thompson at Liverpool, Mr. A. Scott at Piel, Mr. 
Chadwick at Port Erin, and Mr. Ascroft at Lytham, are 
all at work, and we have drawn up and agreed upon the 
following common list of pelagic organisms the 
occurrences and relative abundance of which in the 
various parts of our district will be periodically registered 
for each week in the year: — 
Fish eggs, fish larvee, Appendicularia, gastropod larve, 
larval lamellibranchs, larval crabs, other larval crustacea, 
Alteutha interrupta, Jonesiella hyene, Acartia  sp., 
Temora longicornis, Isias clavipes, Centropages  sp., 
Euterpe acutifrons, Calanus finmarchicus, Anomalocera 
patersoni, Pseudocalanus elongatus, Oithona spinifrons, 
eggs and larvee of copepoda, Podon intermedium, Hvadne 
nordmanni, larval Cirripedia, Echinoderm larve, Autoly- 
tus sp., Tomopteris onisciformis, larval Polycheta, Sagitta 
sp., larval Polyzoa, Ctenophora (state which), Meduse 
(do.), Medusoid Gonophores (do), Noctiluca sp., Ceratium 
sp-, Rhizosolenia sp., Chaetoceros sp., Biddulphia sp., 
Coscinodiscus sp., Nitzchia sp. 
Mr. Ascroft is especially devoting his attention to our 
plankton work, and is now receiving and examining 
collections from various parts of the district. We hope 
that he will be able to contribute an account of these to 
our next Report. 
With a view to making the best use of the time until 
the “census” investigations which 1 have recommended 
above are started, or until a steamer is obtained solely for 
scientific work in the Irish Sea, I drew up in October 
the following scheme of observational work which I hoped 
would be carried out by the new Lancashire Sea-F isheries 
steamer when she started on her routine work. The 
scheme was submitted to the Committee, and although it 
has not yet been formally adopted for execution, I hope 
