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MSI starlings, and forty chaffinches have been examined up to May 31. 

 The evidence obtained from the examination of these specimens is not 

 sufficient to form a correct estimate of the economic value of any one 

 of the three birds under investigation. It is hoped, however, that the 

 work now in hand will soon be completed and the results arranged 

 for publication, and further that the scope of the inquiry will be much 

 increased. 



A grant of 51. was again made to the Committee by the Associa- 

 tion in 1910. As no further financial assistance had been obtained 

 up to the end of July the work has been seriously handicapped ; it has 

 been carried on during the past year with the help of a loan of 251. from 

 the Manchester University. An application has been made to the 

 Development Commissioners for an increased grant, so that the extent 

 of the investigation can be increased, and they have just recommended 

 that an interim grant of 2501. be made during the current year. This 

 will enable the work to be continued at Manchester on a larger scale 

 than hitherto, but will not allow of any great development. The Com- 

 mittee ask for reappointment without a grant. 



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

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

 La.ntkester, Professor A. Sedgwick, Professor Sydney H. Vines, 

 andMv. E. S. Goodrich, appointed to nominate competent Naturalists 

 to perform definite pieces of work at the Marine Laboratory, 

 Plymouth. 



Since last July the table has been occupied by Mr. J. S. Dunkerly, who 

 spent a few days at Plymouth in January last for the purpose of making 

 investigations on the Choanoflagellate Protozoa. The use of the table 

 was granted to Dr. Lyster Jameson for three weeks in May and June 

 last, but Dr. Jameson was obliged to postpone his visit. The use of 

 the table has also been granted to Dr. John Tait for the month of 

 August 1911, for his investigations on the application of physiological 

 methods to the classification of invertebrate animals. 



Map of Prince Charles Foreland. — Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Mr. G. G. Chisholm (Chairman), Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown 

 (Secretary), Sir Duncan Johnstone, and Mr. E. A. Reeves, 

 appointed to complete the Map of Prince Charles Foreland, Spitsbergen, 

 based on the Surveys of 1906, 1907, and 1909 made by Dr. W. S. 

 Bruce. 



The original map was constructed on a scale of two inches to a mile, 

 with the heights and depths in feet and fathoms. This was reduced 

 to a scale of 1 : 100,000, with heights and depths on the metric 

 system. The original of this reduction was sent in final form to the 

 1911. K 



