3rd. The recognition of these laboratories by the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the award of a 

 grant to the University, towards expenses, on acconnt of 

 the scientific fisheries work carried on in the department. 



The new laboratories were opened on November 18th, 

 1905, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Onslow, formerly 

 President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries — 

 " the first Minister for Fisheries " this country has had — 

 in the presence of a large gathering of Zoologists and 

 Fisheries Authorities, including Mr. Tames Fletcher, 

 Chairman of our Local Joint Committee, Mr. T. E. 

 Eagdale, Chairman of the Scientific Sub-Committee, and 

 other representative men : and amongst tliose who gave 

 addresses on the occasion were Sir Thomas Elliott, K.C.B., 

 Permanent Secretary of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, and Sir John Murray, K.C.B., the eminent 

 Oceanographer. 



In the accompanying fig. 1, showing the front 

 elevation of the building, the arrows at the side point to 

 the windows of the floor devoted to the Fisheries Labora- 

 tories, and the plan (fig. 2) shows the accommodation — 

 three rooms, one large and two smaller, in addition to 

 the Fisheries Museum. One of the smaller rooms is at 

 present devoted to bacteriological work, the other is Mr. 

 Johnstone's laboratory, and the larger room will accom- 

 modate two additional investigators. 



As a result of conversation and correspondence with 

 the Chairman of the Joint Committee and the Chairman 

 of the Scientific Sub-Committee, I have been led to make 

 the suggestion that it would be to the advantage and 

 convenience of the members of the Scientific Sub- 

 Committee that they should be brought into more intimate 

 and more constant relation with the details of the work 

 carried on in the Fisheries Laboratory by having periodic 



