168 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Zoology Organisation. — Interim Report of the Committee, consistin 

 of Sir E. Bay Lankester (Chairman), Professor S. J. Hickson 

 (Secretary), Professors G. C. Bourne, J. Cossar Ewart,M.Hartog, 

 W. A. Herdman, and J. Graham Kerr, Mr. 0. H. Latter, 

 Professor Minchin, Dr. P. C. Mitchell, Professors C. Lloyd 

 Morgan, E. B. Poulton, and A. Sedgwick, Dr. A. E. Shipley, 

 and Kev. T. E. E. Stebbing. 



The Committee have not considered it to be necessary to summon any 

 meetings during the past session, as no matters of special interest and 

 importance to zoologists were raised. 



The Committee ask to be reappointed without a grant. 



Marine Laboratory, Plymouth. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Professor A. Dendy (Chairman and Secretary), Sir E. Bay 

 Lankester, Professor A. Sedgwick, Professor Sydney H. Vines, 

 and Mr. E. S. Goodrich, appointed to nominate competent Naturalists 

 to perform definite pieces of work at the Marine Laboratory, 

 Plymouth. 



Since the date of our last report the British Association's table at the 

 Plymouth Marine Laboratory has been occupied for one month 

 (August 1909) by Mr. J. S. Dunkerly, for the purpose of investigating 

 the life-history of the Flagellate Protozoa. The use of the table has 

 also been granted, for the month of July 1910, to Mr. G. E. 

 Nicholls, B.Sc. , for the prorjecution of his researches on Eeissner's 

 Fibre, with special reference to the Elasmobranchi. 



Inniskea Whaling Station. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Dr. A. E. Shipley (Chairman), Professor J. Stanley Gardiner 

 (Secretary), Professor W. A. Herdman, Bev. W. Spotswood 

 Green, Mr. E. S. Goodrich, Dr. H. W. Marett Tims, and Mr. 

 B. M. Barrington, appointed to investigate the Biological Problems 

 incidental to the Inniskea Whaling Station. 



Mr. D. G. Lillie was enabled to work at the Inniskea Whaling Station 

 for several months during the summer of 1909. His expenses have 

 been met by private benefaction. It was hoped that he would continue 

 his researches this year, but, having been appointed a member of the 

 scientific staff on the ' Terra Nova,' he left for the Antarctic in June. 

 As a result of his work he has published substantial contributions to 

 our knowledge of the Cetacea, and it is greatly to be hoped that the 

 opportunity afforded by the Inniskea Whaling Station of investigating 



