46 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Occupation of a Table at the Marine Laboratory, Plymouth.—Report of 
the Committee, consisting of Professor A. DENDY (Chairman and 
Secretary), Sir E. Ray LANKESTER, Professor A. SEDGWICK, and 
Professor SYDNEY H. VINEs. 
ONLY one application for the use of the Association’s table at Plymouth 
has been received during the year. This was from Mr. A. D. Darbishire, 
who wished to investigate the function of the spiracle in elasmobranch 
fishes. Mr. Darbishire occupied the table for about a week at Easter, 
and the results of his investigations have been incorporated in a pape 
which he communicated to the Linnean Society on May 2. 
Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples.—Report of the 
Comnuttee, consisting of Professor 8. J. Hickson (Chairman), Rev. 
T. R. R. STeBBinG (Secretary), Sir E. Ray LANKESTER, Professor 
A. SEDGWICK, Professor W. C. McIntosH, and Mr. G. P. BrppEr. 
THE Committee report that the Association’s table at Naples was occupied 
during the Easter vacation by Dr. W. N. F. Woodland and by Mr. 
R. W. H. Row. The reports of these investigators are appended. 
The Committee desire to be reappointed and ask for the requisite 
grant of 100/. 
Report of Dr. W. N. F. Woopanp. 
During my three weeks’ occupancy of the British Association table 
at the Naples Zoological Station, I was for the most part engaged in 
properly preserving material for investigations in connection with the 
brain (the structure of the pituitary body in particular), scale-develop- 
ment and cartilage-calcification in fishes generally, and with the ‘red- 
bodies’ of teleosts. I carried out numerous experiments in order to 
ascertain the precise mode of circulation of the cerebro-spinal fluid in the 
common dogfish, but I was not able to obtain results as accurate as I 
could wish. I also in my spare time ascertained and made drawings of 
the general distribution of the cranial and anterior spinal nerves of the 
Angler fish (Lophius piscatorius). 
I beg to express my thanks to the Committee for the use of the table. 
Report of Mr. R. W. Harotp Row. 
During my occupancy of the British Association table at Naples 
Zoological Station last Easter, I was chiefly occupied in collecting and 
preserving Amphioxus material for investigations on the Nephridia. 
In my spare time I dissected the cranial and anterior spinal nerves of 
Squatina fimbriata and Trigla sp. 
I desire to express my thanks to the British Association Committee 
for the opportunity so kindly provided me. 
