ON THE ZOOLOGICAL STATION AT NAPLES. 165 



Report of the Committee, consisting of the Rev. H. T. Barnes- 

 Lawrence, Mr. Spence Bate, Mr. H. E. Dresser {Secretary), Mr. 

 J. E. Harting, Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Mr. J. Gr. Shaw Lefevre, 

 M.P., Professor Newton, and the Rev. Canon Tristram, appointed 

 by the Council, for the purpose of inquiring into the possibility 

 of establishing a Close Time for the Protection of Indigenous 

 Animals. 



Your Committee has gratefully to acknowledge the resolution of the 

 Council of the Association, whereby your Committee has been not only 

 reappointed but also instructed to report to the Council in case of any 

 action being required. Tour Committee begs leave to state that no such 

 emergency as was provided for by this instruction has arisen since the 

 presentation of its last Report. Notwithstanding complaints that are 

 occasionally heard, your Committee believes that public opinion continues 

 strongly in favour of the close time principle, as applied to indigenous 

 animals ; and on the part of Her Majesty's Government no steps have been 

 taken to carry out the recommendations of the Scottish Herring Fishery 

 Commissioners, upon which your Committee deemed it its duty to anim- 

 advert last year. The Bird Preservation Acts, though doubtless evaded 

 in some places, in general appear to work well, and to be enforced without 

 difficulty when occasion requires. Having regard to future contingencies, 

 your Committee ventures to solicit its reappointment with the instructions 

 as to reporting to the Council in case of emergency. 



Report of Committee, consisting of Mr. C. Spence Bate and Mr. J. 

 Brooking Rowe, appointed for the purpose of Exploring the 

 Marine Zoology of Devon and Cornivall. 



The exceptionally severe weather during the past winter and spring has 

 prevented the Committee carrying on the intended investigations, and, 

 although some facts of interest have been noted, it is not prepared to 

 report this year. 



It therefore asks that it may be re-appointed, and that the grant may 

 be continued. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. M. Foster, Professor 

 Rolleston, Mr. Dew-Smith (Secretary), Professor Huxley, Dr. 

 Carpenter, Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Mr. Sclater, Mr. F. M. Balfour, 

 Sir C. Wyville Thomson, and Professor Ray Lankester, ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of arranging for the occupation of a 

 Table at the Zoological Station at Naples. 



Since we submitted our last Report to the Association, the Zoological 

 Station at Naples has continued to be successful in providing opportunity 

 and appliances for naturalists studying the various forms of marine 

 animals and plants. Prom September 1, 1878, to the end of July, 1879, 



