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Later a good deal of pathological material was handed over 

 to Mr. J. Bland Sutton, and his results were published in the 

 Proceedings. Some, illustrating the diseases of teeth, went to 

 the Dental Museum. 



Grants were made to the Zoological Record Association 

 in 1886 ; the Society undertook the publication, and Mr. 

 F. E. Beddard, the Prosector, was appointed editor. In the 

 same year the sum of £100 was granted in aid of the estab- 

 lishment of the new Laboratory of the Marine Biological Asso- 

 ciation at Plymouth. This was opened by the President on 

 June 30, 1888. Mr. Cornish said, in his " Life of Sir William 

 Flower" (pp. 164, 165): 



Huxley was too unwell to preside, and in his absence Flower took 

 his place, and as Vice-President of the Marine Biological Association, 

 delivered the opening address. After pointing out that Professor Huxley- 

 was the pioneer in urging support for the study of marine life, he referred 

 to the enormous importance of the subject both to science and economics 

 in a country which has 2,000 miles of coast. 



Professor Ray Lankester was the Honorary Secretary of the 

 Association, which owes quite as much to his advocacy as to 

 Huxley. The chief concern of the Zoological Society with 

 the Association is, that under Professor Lankester's influence 

 bionomic observation and experiment were to be, and are, 

 among the chief objects of its laboratory work. 



The Davis lectures were continued year by year, and the 

 following gentlemen were Davis lecturers for varying periods : 

 Messrs. Beddard, JefFery Bell, Boyd Dawkins, Martin Duncan 

 Flower, Forbes, Harting, E. Ray Lankester, Mivart, Kitchen 

 Parker, Romanes, Sclater, Seebohm, and Bowdler Sharpe. It 

 cannot be said that the lectures were a success. Even the 

 President, in his Jubilee Address, admitted the fact. " I must, 

 however, confess," he said, " that the interest taken by the 

 Society generally in these lectures has not quite equalled the 

 expectations that were raised when the question of establishing 

 them was first brought before the notice of the Council." 



There seems, nevertheless, to have been a belief in some 

 quarters that really popular lectures by competent men would 

 be well attended. " Why not, for example," said a writer in the 

 Daily Telegraph (May 13, 1890), " have special daily lectures for 



