122 REPORT—1862. 
“‘ The ovaries.—I take it that the brownish-pink masses which were seen 
suspended just outside the curtains in the living animal were the ovaries, 
but, not having had the opportunity of examining these bodies, I hesitate to 
state that they actually are the reproductive organs.” 
The specimen described has been well preserved in a mixture of diluted 
spirit and creosote. 
In Actinozoa our list is not rich ; Stomphia Churchice (Gosse), and a Phellia 
not yet ascertained, but probably the Phellia gausipata of Gosse (a species 
hitherto only taken at Wick), are among the rarer species obtained. 
The list of Foraminifera is a very rich one, considering the short time 
and the limited area over which the dredging extended. 
Of the 101 species and varieties enumerated in Prof. Williamson’s mono- 
graph, our list contains 55 ; and besides these, several are reserved for further 
examination. 
Fully twenty of these had not previously been found on our coast by 
Mr. Joshua Alder or Mr. H. B. Brady, the only observers. 
The most noticeable facts respecting the Foraminifera obtained are, first, 
the extraordinary prevalence of the various forms of Dentalina in the Berwick 
Bay dredgings, occurring as they do in every gradation from the extreme 
form of Dentalina subarcuata to the extreme of D. legumen. No line of 
demarcation can be drawn between the hyaline shell constricted at the septa 
(the septal lines being oblique) and the more robust, much-curved form of 
D.legumen. On the same ground Polymorphina frequently assumes the more 
luxuriant form known as variety jfistulosa. And secondly, the number and 
beauty of the Lagenw, of which every British variety was taken, most of them 
abundantly. 
Of the Sponges no list has been attempted, the very few species obtained 
waiting further examination. 
Altogether, the results are, I trust, such as to justify further efforts on the 
same coast; and they are, at any rate, most interesting to our local natu- 
ralists, who are, through the medium of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field 
Club, working out the fauna of the district with a completeness which few 
districts can equal. 
Report of the Committee appointed at Manchester to consider and 
report upon the best means of advancing Science through the agency 
of the Mercantile Marine. By Curuspert Cottinewoon, M.B., 
F.L.S. 
Tur Committee appointed at the Manchester Meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation consisted of the following gentlemen :— 
Dr. Collingwood, Liverpool. J. Aspinall Turner, M.P., Manchester. 
R. Patterson, F.R.S., Belfast. P. P. Carpenter, Ph.D., Warrington. 
John Lubbock, F.R.S., London. Rey. H. H. Higgins, M.A., Liverpool. 
Since that time much has been done in promoting the scheme suggested in 
the paper then read before Section D. That paper has been printed in the 
‘Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool,’ and 
copies of it have been struck off, and very largely circulated among ship- 
owners, merchants, and all the large and influential list of correspondents 
to whom the documents of the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool are 
