REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. V 



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 Belmullet Whaling Station. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. 

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

 Professor W. A. Herdman, Rev. W. Spotswood Green, Mr. E. S. Good- 

 rich, Dr. H. W. Marett Tims, and Mr. R. M. Barrington, appointed to 

 investigate the Biological Problems incidental to the Belmullet Whaling 

 Station 121 



Experiments in Inheritance. — Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Professor W. A. Herdman (Chairman), Mr. R. Douglas Laurie 

 (Secretary), Professor R. C. Punnett, and Dr. H. W. Marett Tims. 

 (Drawn up by the Secretary) 125 



The Formulation of a Definite System on which Collectors should record 

 their Captures. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor J. W. H. 

 Trail (Chairman), Mr. F. Balfour Browne (Secretary), Dr. Sohabfp, 

 Professor G. H. Carpenter, Professor E. B. Poulton, and Mr. A. G. 

 Tansley 126 



Zoology Organisation. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir E. Ray 

 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 E. B. Poulton and A. Sedgwick, and Dr. A". E. Shipley 127 



The Mammalian Fauna in the Miocene Deposits of the Bugti Hills, Balu- 

 chistan. — Interim Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor G. C. 

 Bourne (Chairman), Mr. C. Forster Cooper (Secretary), Drs. A. Smith 

 Woodward, A. E. Shipley, C. W. Andrews, and H. F. Gadow, and Pro- 

 fessor J. Stanley Gardiner, appointed to enable Mr. C. Forster Cooper 

 to make an examination thereof. (Drawn up by the Secretary) 127 



The Zoology of the Sandwich Islands. — Twenty-fust Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. F. Du Cane Godman (Chairman), Mr. D. Sharp 

 (Secretary), Professor S. J. Hickson, Dr. P. L. Sclater, and Mr. Edgar 

 A. Smith ll!8 



Feeding Habits of British Birds. — Third Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Dr. A. E. Shipley (Chairman), Mr. H. S. Leigh (Secretary), Professors 

 S. J. Hickson, F. W. Gamble, F. E. Weiss, J. Arthur Thomson, and 

 G. H. Carpenter, and Messrs. J. N. Halbert, C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 Robert Newstead, Clement Reid, A. G. L. Rogers, and F. V. Theobald, 

 appointed to investigate the Feeding Habits of British Birds by a study of 

 the contents of the crops and gizzards of both adults and nestlings, and 

 by collation of observational evidence, with the object of obtaining precise 

 knowledge of the economic status of many of our commoner birds affecting 

 rural science 128 



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

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

 Professor A. Sedgwick, Professor Sydney H. Vines, and Mr. E. S. Good- 

 rich, appointed to nominate competent Naturalists to perform definite 

 pieces of work at the Marine Laboratory, Plymouth 12'J 



