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A beam trawl was shot and dragged for two hours, and the 

 resulting catch examined and sorted out for examination ashore. 



Wednesday : cold and wet. — The morning was spent 

 collecting along the foreshore west of the harbour, but little 

 was obtained. 



Thursday. — The party went out in the morning under 

 Mr. Scott and obtained a supply of Arenicola ; the rest of the 

 day was spent in examination and dissection of this material, 

 and in examination of segmenting ova of the plaice. 



Friday. — In view of the threatened railway strike, I 

 decided to bring the party back to Manchester, and wired 

 Dr. Jenkins to that effect. Otherwise, the party would have 

 stayed until Monday, the 18th, and returned to Fleetwood 

 on the " James Fletcher." During the morning a very interest- 

 ing lantern lecture upon the Fisheries of the Morecambe Bay 

 area was given by Mr. Scott. The party left Piel on the 

 1.13 train. 



General Remarks. 



In spite of the unfortunate curtailment of our visit, a 

 surprising amount of work was carried out, and the vjsit was 

 in every way a success. The muddy and shingly foreshore 

 is far more plentiful in variety of animal life than would appear 

 from a cursory examination, and to the assiduous and 

 experienced collector is not greatly inferior to a rocky coast 

 such as obtains at Port Erin. 



Any inferiority of littoral fauna was, however, compensated 

 for by the facilities afforded by the Fisheries Committee's 

 steamer. 



The laboratory facilities are equal to those prevailing in 

 the University laboratory. There is bench accommodation 

 for sixteen students, there are fifteen good Leitz microscopes 

 and a Zeiss binocular, there is a plentiful supply of glassware, 

 dishes, instruments, reagents, etc. In the adjoining fish 



