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by-laws of the Association which will require the approval of 
the present general meeting and of a subsequent special general 
meeting, which will be duly summoned. The first proposal is 
to enact by by-law of the Association that the Prime Warden 
of the Fishmongers’ Company shall always be ex officio a member 
of the Council of the Association. The Fishmongers’ Company 
have shown their interest in the enterprise of the Association by 
contributing 2000/. to its funds. In reply to an inquiry from the 
Council, the Court of Assistants of the Fishmongers’ Company 
have cordially accepted the proposition that the Prime Warden 
_ of the Company should hold the official relation to the Associa- 
tion above proposed. The Council therefore propose to alter 
By-law 2 of the Association by the insertion between the words 
“officers” and ‘‘and fourteen other members” of the words 
**the Prime Warden of the Fishmongers’ Company for the time 
being.” 
The second proposal has relation to the admission of the Uni- 
versities of Great Britain and Ireland to a share in the govern- 
ment of the Association. As was stated in the last Annual 
Report, members of the University of Cambridge have subscribed 
a sum of 500/. for the purpose of qualifying the University as a 
Governor of the Association. During the past year a similar 
' fund has been raised by members of the University of Oxford. 
' At the annual general meeting in June 1885, in view of these 
| proceedings, the following addition to By-law 17 was carried : 
** Any University of the United Kingdom, on the payment of 
§00/. to the Association by members of the University, shall, if 
the Council of the Association consent thereto, acquire as a 
consequence the perpetual right of nominating one member of 
the Council of the Association,” 
The Council now propose to erase the words just cited, and 
to substitute the following :— 
* Any University of the United Kingdom, on the payment of 
| 500/. to the Association in the name of the University and for 
| 
the purpose of acquiring the right herein specified, shall, if the 
Council of the Ass ciation assent thereto, become a Governor of 
the Association, and acquire the perpetual right of nominating 
annually one member of the Council of the Association to serve 
for one year (from the annual meeting in one year to that in the 
following year) ; and any resident member of the University sub- 
scribing roo/, or more to such fund of 500/., shall, in virtue 
/of such subscription, become a ‘Founder’ of the Associa- 
tion.” 
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VII. The Council have again to record a severe loss to the 
Association in the list of its Vice-Presidents owing to the death 
of Dr. W. B. Carpenter, C.B., F.R.S. Dr. Carpenter was a 
warm supporter of the Association, and contributed largely by 
his advocacy of its objects to the success which has now been 
attained. 
VIII. The Council do not propose any change in the list of 
Officers, Vice-Presidents, and Council for the ensuing year. 
They desire to notify that the following gentlemen have qualified 
by subscription of 500/. each as Life-Members (Governors) of 
the Council, viz. Mr. Robert Bayly, of Plymouth, 1885; Mr. 
'Bazley White (Clothworkers’ Company), 1885; Mr. E. L. 
Beckwith (Fishmongers’ Company), 1885 ; and Mr, John Bayly, 
of Plymouth, 1886. 
IX. During the ensuing year the building at Plymouth will 
be in course of erection. It is anticipated that the chief duty of 
the Council during this period will be to organise a scheme of 
investigation to be carried out at Plymouth when the Laboratory 
is in working order. 
It will be especially the business of the Council to determine 
the conditions under which the Laboratory shall be accessible to 
the naturalists of the United Kingdom and other countries for 
the purpose of aiding in those inquiries into the life-history of 
marine animals and plants, and particularly of food-fishes, which 
it is the purpose of the Association to foster. 
X. The plan of the Laboratory building includes a library. 
tions of works relating to fisheries and to marine zoology and 
_ botany for the library, They will also be glad to receive sub- 
scriptions towards a special library fund, in reference to which 
and all similar matters, the Hon. Secretary, Prof. Lankester, 
can be consulted. 
XI. In conclusion, the Council desire again to express the 
great obligation which the Association is under towards the 
Council of the Linnean Society for the continued permission 
accorded by that body to the Association to meet in the rooms 
of the Society. 
The Council take the present opportunity of asking for dona- 
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MEMORANDUM RELATING TO THE MODE 
IN WHICH SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE CAN 
BE MADE USEFUL TO ENGLISH FISHERIES 
qpPBe following Memorandum has been presented to the Presi- 
dent of the Board of Trade and officially acknowledged by 
hint: 
Without committing ourselves to all the statements and opinions 
contained in the subjoined Memorandum, we, the undersigned, 
wish to state that we concur generally with the views as to the 
proposed constitution of the new Fishery Department therein 
expressed — 
Argyll, K.G., F.R.S.; Walsingham ; Stalbridge ; E. Marjori- 
banks, M.P., Member of the late Royal Commission on Trawl- 
ing ; John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. ; James Paget, Bart., 
F.R.S.; Henry W. Acland, K.C.B., F-R.S.3 J. Fayrer, 
K.C.S.L, F.R.S., Honorary Physician to the Queen, Physician 
to the Secretary of State for India in Council ; C. Spence Bate, 
F.R.S., Member of Council of the Marine Biological Associa- 
tion; I. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., Sherardian Professor of Botany 
in the University of Oxford ; Ed. Lonsdale Beckwith, late Prime 
Warden of the Fishmongers’ Company, Member of Council of 
the Marine Biological Association ; F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., Pro- 
fessor of Zoology in King’s College, London, Member of Council 
of the Marine Biological Association ; Henry B. Brady, F.R.S. ; 
W. S. Caine, M.P., Member of the late Royal Commission on 
Trawling ; P. H. Carpenter, F.R.S. ; W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., 
President of the Royal Microscopical Society; F. Darwin, 
F.R.S. ; W. T. Thiselton Dyer, C.M.G., F.R.S., Director of 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, Member of Council of the Marine 
Biological Association ; W. H. Flower, F.R.S., Superintendent 
of the British Museum, Natural History, President of the 
Zoological Society, Vice-President of the Marine Biologi- 
cal Association; Hans Gadow, Strickland Curator and Lec- 
turer on Animal Morphology in the University of Cambridge ; 
Arthur Gamgee, F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Physiology in 
the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S. ; 
A. Giinther, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Department of 
the British Museum, Member of Council of the Marine Bio- 
logical Association; S. F. Harmer, Fellow of King’s College, 
Cambridge ; W. A. Herdman, Professor of Zoology in Univer- 
sity College, Liverpool, Member of Council of the Marine Bio- 
logical Association; G. M. Humphry, F.R.S., Professor of 
Surgery in the University of Cambridge, late Professor of 
Anatomy, Fellow of King’s College ; J. N. Langley, F.RS., 
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; E. Ray Lankester, 
F.R.S., Jodrell Professor of Zoology in University College, 
London, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, Hon. Sec. 
of the Marine Biological Association; A. Milnes Marshall, 
F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in Owens College, Manchester, 
Member of Council of the Marine Biological Association ; 
W. C. McIntosh, F.R.S., Professor of Natural History in 
the University of St. Andrews, Vice-President of the Marine 
Biological Association ; H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., Linacre Pro- 
fessor of Human and Comparative Anatomy in the University of 
Oxford, Chairman of Council of the Marine Bi logical Associa- 
tion; Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., Member of Council of the 
Marine Biological Association ; J. Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., 
Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford ; 
E. A. Schafer, F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in University 
College, London; P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., Secretary of the 
Zoological Society, Member of Council of the Marine Biological 
Association ; Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Col- 
lege, Cambridge, Member of Council of the Marine Biological 
Association ; C. Stewart, F.L.S., Conservator of the Museum of 
the Royal College of Surgeons, Member of Council of the Marine 
Biological Association ; D’Arcy W. Thompson, Professor of Zoo- 
logy in University College, Dundee ; Sydney H. Vines, F.R.S. ; 
W. F. R. Weldon, Fellow of Si. John’s College, Cambridge ; 
Frank Crisp, Vice-President of the Linnean Society, Hon. 
Treasurer of the Marine Biological Association ; Peter Eade, 
President, on behalf of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society; J. Gurney, Mayor of Norwich, R. E. Burroughes, 
H. W. Stafford, John B. Pearce, Harry Bullard, S. Gurney 
Buxton, and John Barwell, Conservators under the Norfol« and 
Suffolk Fisheries Act, 1877, for the City of Norwich ; C. Louis 
Buxton, T. C. Blofeld, and E. Frost, Mayor of Thetford, Con- 
servators for Norfolk; B. F. Grimsey, Mayor of Ipswich, and 
Lieut.-Col. H. M. Leathes, Conservators for Suffolk; F. B. 
Archer, Conservator for Lynn ; C. J. Greene, Hon. Sec. of the 
