356 BEPORT— 1892. 



Birable, additional funds must be found. The Committee therefore request 

 that they may be reappointed with the same powers as before, and that 

 the sum of 200Z. be placed at their disposal. 



Repoo't of the Committee, consisting of Professor Eat Lankester 

 (Chairman), Professor M. Foster, Professor S. H. Vines, and 

 Mr. S. F. Harmer (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of 

 arranging for the occupation of a Table at the Laboratory of 

 the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth. 



The amount of the grant placed at the disposal of the Committee for the 

 present year was V?l. 10s., being the unexpended balance of the grant of 

 the previous year. 



The Committee have received four applications for the use of a table, 

 but their funds have not allowed them to make more than three 

 nominations, of which one was for a shorter period than was asked for. 



They have nominated — ■ 



Mr. F. W. Gamble, B.Sc, of Owens College, Manchester, for 



two months from August 1, 1892. 

 Mr. Edgar J. Allen, of University College, London, for six weeks 



from June 3, 1892. 

 Mr. Gregg Wilson, M.A., B.Sc, Assistant to the Professor of 



Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, for one 



month from August 15, 1892. 



As has been the case on previous occasions, the Committee have 

 included in the above periods the month which belongs to the Association 

 free of charge. 



Mr. Gamble proposes to work at the Tnrbellarian Fauna of Plymouth 

 Sound and its neighbourhood. Mr. Allen, who is already at Plymouth,, 

 intends to use his time there for the study of the development of Decapod 

 Crustacea. Mr. Gregg Wilson proposes to investigate the Food of 

 Fishes. 



The Committee expressed the hope in their last report that they 

 would be able to give in their report for this year some account of the 

 results arrived at by the persons who were appointed with the assistance 

 of the grant made at the meeting of the Association in 1890. As these 

 appointments fell within the months July-September 1891 it was 

 obviously impossible to incorporate their results in the last report. The 

 Committee are glad to be in a position to furnish the following infor- 

 mation with regard to the results of their expenditure of 1 21. \0s. of the 

 previous grant : — 



I. Report on the Occupation of the Table. 

 By Miss Florence Buchanan, B.Sc. 



Last year, owing to the kindness of the British Association, I was 

 enabled to spend the month of July at the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 at Plymouth. I went down intending to work at some points in the 



