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expedition, to form any near estimate of its cost, it is believed 

 that (apart from the provision of the ship, which it is hoped 

 would be undertaken by the Admiralty) this should lie between 

 £200,000 and £300,000, with a bias toward the higher figure. 

 It is to be observed that the expenditure would be spread over 

 a number of years. 



Publication of Results 



In this connection suitable arrangements for the adequate 

 publication of the results of the expedition must be borne in mind. 

 The working out and publication of the results of the ' ' Challenger ' ' 

 expedition are stated to have cost about as much as the expedi- 

 tion itself, and a similar expenditure may be anticipated in the 

 present case. 



Preservation or Specimens 



The natural repository of type specimens collected during the 

 expedition would be the British Museum (Natural History 

 Department), while duplicate specimens should be offered to 

 museums, universities, etc., in various parts of the Empire. 



SCHEDULE 



Subjects for Investigation 



To give some idea of the amount and variety of scientific 

 work that might be undertaken by such an expedition, the follow- 

 ing may be mentioned as some of the chief recommendations 

 which have been received from representatives of the various 

 Sections of the British Association concerned : — 



(1) In the departments of marine biology and physiology 

 extensive investigations are required of fish and fisheries in 

 the interest of food suppHes. These include a very wide 

 range of inquiry, which may be summarized thus : the 

 effects of temperature and other conditions on the distribu- 

 tion and life of organisms ; the distribution of the plankton 

 (which includes organisms of first-rate importance as food for 

 fishes which supply food for man) ; ocean currents in relation 

 to fisheries (just enough is known as to the influence of varia- 

 tions in the great oceanic currents upon the movements and 

 abundance of migratory fishes to make evident the need for 

 further and more complete investigation of the subject) ; 



