SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. 81 



CLASSES, VISITORS, &c., AT PIEL. 

 By Andrew Scott, A.L.S. 



Four classes for fishermen were held at Piel in the 

 spring of 1911. The Education Committee of the 

 Lancashire County Council voted the usual sum of money, 

 which enables forty-five fishermen residing- in the 

 Administrative area to attend a course of instruction at 

 Piel. The Southport Education Committee sent four men 

 and the Blackpool Education Committee again sent three 

 men. The Liverpool Education Committee sent two 

 fishermen from the steam trawlers fishing out of Liverpool. 

 The Cumberland Education Committee, for the first time, 

 sent men belonging to that county. Altogether, fifty- 

 seven fishermen students attended the classes, and received 

 instruction in Elementary Marine Biology. Twenty- 

 eight of them also received a course of instruction in 

 jVavigation and Seamanship in addition to their Marine 

 Biology. The studentship holders were divided into four 

 classCvS — three of fourteen each, and one of fifteen men, as 

 shown by the following lists: — 



First Class, held March 18th to 24th.~J. N. 

 Armstrong, Silloth ; John Ferguson, Maryport ; John 

 Butler, Flookburgh; James Hill, Flookburgh ; Thomas 

 Cocking (Juur.), Morecambe ; George Mount, Morecambe ; 

 James Cartmell, Blackpool; W. Gornall, Blackpool; 

 Jack Rimmer, Blackpool ; Richard Howard, Soutliport ; 

 Benjamin Wright, Southport ; John Wright, Southport ; 

 William AVright, Southport; Joseph Beck, Liverpool; 

 Frederick Houghton, Liverpool. 



Second Class, held March 27th to April 7tli. — Thomas 

 Pater, Whitehaven ; William Wilson, Baicliffe ; William 

 Hodgson, Flookburgh ; Thomas Shaw, Flookburgh ; 



