148 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1915. 



Poiorous, Bromkia, Perameles, Hahnalurus, Pseiidocltirus, Vulpecula, 

 Phascolojiiys, niUhorhyncJnis , and Echidna. 



The total expenditure to date is 21L 17s. 6d. An endeavour has 

 been made to keep skins and skulls of as many animals as possible, and 

 it is confidently expected that the value of these will be equal to a con- 

 siderable amount of the grant. 



The Committee desires to retain the balance of the grant, and 

 applies for reappointment. 



Biology of the Ahrolhos Islands. — Interim Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Professor W. A. Herdman (Chairman), 

 Professor W. J. Dakin (Secretary), Dr. J. H. Ashworth, 

 and Professor F. 0. Bower, appointed for the investigation 

 of the Biology of the Ahrolhos Islands and the North-West 

 Coast of Australia (North of Shark's Bay to Broome), with 

 particular reference to the Marine Fauna. 



Owing to the war and several other unforeseen circumstances, the 

 departure of the expedition for the Ahrolhos Islands has had to be 

 delayed. Owing to delays in the mail it was near the end of May 

 before intimation was received from the Government Grant Committee 

 of the Eoyal Society that a grant for the purposes of the Ahrolhos in- 

 vestigation had been passed. Without this the full programme could 

 not have been carried out. Everything has now been arranged, and, 

 unless some extraordinary developments take place through the war, 

 the expedition will leave Perth on November 1. Equipment has been 

 ordered to the amount of 34L out of the British Association grant of 

 4:01., but no accounts are to hand, and nothing has yet been paid out. 



The Committee asks for reappointment for the coming year without 

 further grant. 



Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples. — 

 Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. E. S. Goodrich 

 (Chairman), Dr. J. H. Ashwoeth (Secretary), Mr. G. P. 

 Bidder, Professor F. 0. Bower, Dr. W. B. Hardy, Dr. S. 

 F. Harmer, Professor S. J. Hickson, Sir E. Bay Lan- 

 kester, Professor W. C. McIntosh, and Dr. A. D. Waller. 



The British Association table at Naples has not been occupied during 

 the current financial year. In April 1914, Mr. J. Mangan, of the 

 Government School of Medicine, Cairo (now Professor of Zoology in 

 Galway), applied for the use of the table from Sept. 12 onwards for 

 four or five weeks, and he was appointed to the table for that 

 period. On Sept. 4, however, lie wrote from Cairo as follows : ' As 

 all leave has been stopped in the Government service here, I have had 

 to cancel my plans for working during September and October at the 

 British Association table at Naples. . . . Will you please convey to 



