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Foraminifera, Annelid sete, along with a 
certain amount of sand. 
6°. The stomachs and intestines of the young fish 
(mainly dabs) brought to the Laboratory from 
near the Deposit buoy were full of sand, with 
fragments of shells and remains of animals. 
‘“ ConcLustons.—So far as these samples show, there is 
no reason to think that either the shrimps or the young 
fish feed upon the stuff deposited by the Hoppers. They 
did not show any traces of it in their stomachs, nor are 
they specially abundant where the bottom shows the 
greatest amount of dirt and decomposable material.” 
* University College, “W. A. HERDMAN.” 
“ March 15th, 1900.” 
Mr. Dawson and I therefore agree that it is a mistake 
to suppose (1) that the Liverpool refuse is especially 
abundant at the bottom in the neighbourhood of the so- 
called “deposit” buoy, which is on the Burbo Bank 
Shrimping Ground, and (2) that shrimps feed specially 
upon such refuse. Consequently the idea that the shrimps 
are attracted to the ground they frequent by the Liverpool 
deposits may be relinquished, and it is very improbable 
that changing the place of deposition would have any 
favourable effect upon the present distribution of shrimps 
and young fish. 
As a matter of fact, as Mr. Dawson has pointed out in 
one of his quarterly reports, the steam hopper barges con- 
veying the refuse generally go much further out to sea 
than the area in question before discharging; and, with 
the exception of sand, no material of any kind has 
apparently been deposited in the neighbourhood of the 
deposit buoy and from there to the Burbo Bank for some 
time. 
