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apparently due to want of information among the higher 
schools in the county of the advantages to be derived from 
these scholarships. Several suitable candidates were 
heard of when it was too late. Considering the increase 
of work and of interest in Marine Biology and its appli- 
eation to Fishery questions of late years, it will be very 
unfortunate if this important experiment is allowed to 
lapse merely because of the absence of candidates in the 
first year, before the scheme was sufliciently known. 
In addition to these scholarships, the County Council 
granted last year a sum of £100 for studentships to enable 
fishermen to undertake a short course of practical instruc- 
tion in the Zoological Department at University College, 
Liverpool. It was, after careful consideration by a Com- 
mittee, decided to send 20 elected fishermen representa- 
tive of different centres and branches of industry, to 
University College; each to have a fortnight’s instruction, 
and the sum of £5 to be paid to each man to cover his 
travelling expenses and board and lodging, and to re- 
imburse him to some extent for what he might have 
lost by not following his ordinary vocation during the 
two weeks. These laboratory classes were held in 
February and March, 1900; and the main part of the 
work was carried on by Mr. Johnstone under my personal 
direction and supervision. The course was divided up 
into ten days, the work upon which was as shown in the 
following sections : — 
1. Tue Common Mussen.—Structure (especially in regard 
to feeding, breathing, reproducing and _ habits), 
spawning and life-history. 
2. Hapvpocx.—Structure, feeding, breathing, spawning, 
and life-history. 
8. Cras, Prawn, Surime and Lossrer.—Habits, food, 
eggs, reproduction and life-history. 
