RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. lxvii 
of the seven principal observatories of the Meteorological Council, and to 
forward a copy of the same to the Meteorological Council. 
That the Council of the British Association be requested to com- 
municate at the earliest opportunity with the Executive Committee of the 
International Fisheries Exhibition in order to urge upon that body the 
appropriation of a sufficient sum out of the surplus funds remaining in 
their hands at the close of the Exhibition to found a laboratory on the 
British Coast for the study of Marine Zoology ; and to point ont, as a 
reason for such appropriation, the great value to science, and to the 
prosperity of the fisheries industries, of such an institution. 
