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duction of the methods aiid results of science to the 

 rising generation which is so desirable in the interests of 

 national progress. 



Curator's Report. 

 Mr. Chadwick reports to me as follows : — 

 " I again have the pleasure of recording an increase 

 in the number of researchers and students who have 

 resorted to our laboratories, the total number this year 

 being sixty. The TJniversities and other institutions 

 represented were almost the same as those of last year, 

 with the addition of Queen's College, Cork, and the 

 Technical School, Huddersfield. Of the sixty workers, 

 forty-two occupied tables at the one time, during the 

 Easter vacation; and, in spite of the increased 

 accommodation atforded by the new researcli laboratory, 

 it was found necessary to utilise the museum gallery in 

 order to avoid overcrowding and its attendant incon- 

 veniences. 



" The weather during the Spring vacation was, on 

 the whole, favourable for out-door work, and much shore- 

 collecting was done under the guidance of Professor 

 Herdman, Professor Harvey Gibson, Professor Cole, Dr. 

 Dakin and Mr. AV. A. Gunn. Several visits were paid, 

 by boat from Port St. Marv, to the caves in the 

 neighbourhood of the Sugar Loaf Rock, and were 

 greatly appreciated by the senior students who 

 participated in the exceptional opportunities of collecting 

 afforded by these expeditions. In addition to the 

 practical instruction given in the laboratories during 

 the day, evening lectures were given by Dr. Dakin, on 

 ' Plankton,' and by the Curator, who gave an account 

 of his studies on the local Echinoderm larvae, illustrated 

 by a large series of lantern slides photographed from his 

 own original drawings. 



