190 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1912. 
Marine Laboratory, Plymouth.—Report of the Committee, con- 
sisting of Professor A. DENDY (Chairman and Secretary), Sir 
EK. Ray LANKESTER, Professor A. SEDGWICK, Professor 
SypNEY H, Vines, and Mr. E. 8. GoopricH, appointed to 
nominate competent Naturalists to perform definite pieces of 
work at the Marine Laboratory, Plymouth. 
DurinaG the past year the table has been occupied for one month by 
Mr. H. M. Fuchs, who reports as follows :— 
“In the month during which I have occupied the British Associa- 
tion table this summer, I have continued an investigation into the 
hybridisation of Echinoids. A preliminary account of the inheritance 
of characters in hybrids between the three English species of Echinus 
was published last autumn in conjunction with Messrs, Cresswell 
Shearer and Walter De Morgan.’ During the spring and summer of 
this year the experiments have been continued, especially with 
reference to the heredity in the sea-urchins after metamorphosis. As 
the work is as yet incomplete, I do not wish to make a statement of 
results at present.’ 
Zoology Organisation.—Report of the Committee, consisting of 
Sir E. Ray LANKESTER (Chairman), Professor S. J. Hickson 
(Secretary), Professors G. C. Bourne, J. Cossan Ewart, 
M. Hartoc, W. A. HerpMAN, and J. GRAHAM KERR, Mr. 
O. H. Larter, Professor Mincutn, Dr. P. C. MitTcHeu, 
Professors E. B. Poutton and A. SEDGWICK, and Dr. A. B. 
SHIPLEY. 
Durina the past session the Committee have made an effort to place 
on a permanent basis the allocation of one or more tables at the zoologi- 
cal station at Naples for British subjects. A letter was written by the 
Secretary and forwarded to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking for 
consideration of the request that the Government should secure two 
tables for British subjects. The reply to this letter was not favourable. 
The Committee have now under consideration other proposals for 
achieving the same object. 
In the early part of the year the Committee decided to take a 
census of the opinion of British zoologists on the question of the strict 
application of the law of priority in zoological nomenclature. 
A circular was prepared and zoologists were asked to sign one of 
the two following statements :— 
(a) The undersigned British Zoologists are of opinion that the 
Law of Priority as regards zoological nomenclature should be 
strictly applied in all cases. 
(b) The undersigned British Zoologists protest against the 
strict application of the Law of Priority in all cases, and desire that 
* Journ. M.B.A., vol. ix. 
