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Belmullet Whaling Station.—Report of the Committee, consisting 
: of Dr. A. E. Sureney (Chairman), Professor J. STANLEY 
GARDINER (Secretary), Professor W. A. HERDMAN, Rey. W. 
Sporswoop GREEN, Mr. EK. S. GoopricH, Professor H. W. 
Marett Trims, and Mr. R. M. Barrineron, appointed to 
investigate the Biological Problems incidental to the Belmullet 
Whaling Station. 
Tue Committee acting through Professor Herdman arranged with Mr. 
J. Erik Hamilton and Mr. R. J. Daniel, two post-graduate research 
students of the University of Liverpool, for the prosecution of their 
researches in 19138. They proceeded to Belmullet on June 25 and Mr. 
Hamilton remained until the end of the fishery. Mr. Daniel retired 
from the investigations on August 26, having been appointed to a post 
under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Mr. Hamilton’s Report 
is appended. 
The Committee desire to express their thanks to Mr. R. M. 
Barrington for considerable financial assistance. They have been 
enabled owing to his generosity to arrange with Mr. Hamilton for 
the further prosecution of the work in 1914. They have now experi- 
ence with three investigators—Mr. Lillie, Mr. Burfield, and Mr. 
‘Hamilton—and they find that the annual expense is about 45]. They 
attach great importance, both from the scientific and economic sides, 
to the further continuation of these investigations, and beg to apply 
for reappointment with a grant of 451. for the summer of 1915. 
Report to the Committee by J. Ertk Hamiuron, B.Sc. 
I.—Introduction. 
In June 1913 Mr. R. J. Daniel and I proceeded to the Blacksod 
Bay Whaling Station on Ardelly Point, Blacksod Bay, Co. Mayo, 
Ireland, to continue the work carried on by Mr. S. T. Burfield, B.A., 
mm 1911.2 
The flensing plane was clearly visible by telescope from the hotel, 
and the whaling steamers are compelled to pass the Point whenever 
they come in. In consequence no whale escaped notice, as might 
otherwise have happened on account of the distance from the Station. 
Our first whale was examined on the morning after our arrival, 
i.e., on June 26, the last on September 9. As Mr. Daniel was 
appointed to a post under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, he 
had to leave Blacksod on August 26 for his new duties. Consequently 
the working up of the collections and the preparation of this Report 
have been left in my hands. 
T desire to express my heartiest thanks to Professor W. A. Herdman, 
* British Association Report, 1912, p. 145. 
