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Naples. Other matters affecting the interests of zoologists in the country 
have engaged the attention of the Committee during the year. 
A meeting of the Committee was held in London on May 11. 
A meeting of zoologists summoned by the Committee to consider the 
question of the teaching of natural history in schools was held in the 
Zoological Gardens, London, on the same date. 
The Secretary has received in subscriptions and donations 21/. 2s. 7d., 
and spent in postage and printing 4/. 
The Committee ask to be reappointed. 
Colour Physiology of the Higher Crustacea.—Interim Report of the 
Oommittee, consisting of Professor 8. J. Hickson (Chairman), Dr. 
F. W. GAMBLE (Secretary), Dr. W. EK. Hoyue, and Mr. F. W. 
KEEBLE, appointed to enable Dr. F. W. Gamble and Mr, Keeble 
to conduct Researches in the Colour Physiology of the Higher 
Crustacea. 
Lasr summer, in Mr. Keeble’s laboratory at Tiegastel, Brittany, a further 
spell of work on the colour physiology of the higher crustacea was 
carried out by Messrs. Gamble and Keeble. Its results have recently 
appeared in the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ and form the necessary 
preliminary to that research on the relation between respiratory phenomena 
and colour change for the furtherance of which this grant was made last 
summer. That research can only be carried out in the summer vacation, 
and Messrs. Keeble and Gamble are just about to start experimental 
work, and have not yet spent the grant. Accordingly, in presenting this 
interim Report, the Committee ask to be reappointed and for the grant to 
be renewed. 
On the Accuracy and Compurability of British and Foreign Statistics 
of International Trade.—Report of the Committee, consisting of 
Dr. E. Cannan (Chairman), Mr. W. G. S. Apams (Secretary), 
Mr. A. L. Bowtey, Professor S. J. CHAPMAN, wnd Sir R. GIFFEN. 
Tue Committee have made inquiries during the past year with regard to 
the statistics of imports and exports published by the Governments of 
British Colonies and other States forming part of the British Empire. 
Owing to the shorter interval available for such inquiry, and also to the 
delays consequent in obtaining information from lands widely distant, 
it has not been found possible to do more than carry this investigation 
through the preliminary stages; but it has seemed desirable that the 
facts already collected, and certain general considerations arising out of 
them, should be presented as an interim report. The accumulation of 
information on a complex and highly detailed question such as_ the 
accuracy and comparability of international statistics may be persisted 
in profitably for a succession of years, and the patient and comprehensive 
study of the subject should materially assist in forwarding reforms of 
practical value. The inquiry has been continued largely on the lines 
adopted in the previous report, and is supplementary to it. 
