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the Committee my tbanks for the facihties so kindly offered to me, and 

 my regret that I cannot avail myself of them? ' 



Mrs. Pixell-Goodinch has pubhahed ('Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci.,' 

 vol. 61, pp. 81-104, pi. viii., 1915) an acconnt of the researches on 

 ' The Life-history of the Sporozoa of Spatangoids ' which she carried 

 out in part while occupying the British Association table at Naples 

 in the spi'ing of 1914. 



Marine Laboratory, Plymouth. — Report oj the Committee, con- 

 sisting o/ Professor A. Dendy {Chairman and Secretary), Sir 

 E. Kay Lankester, Mr. E. S. Goodrich, and Professor 

 J. P. Hill, appointed to nominate competent Naturalists to 

 perform definite pieces of work at the Marine Laboratory, 

 Plymouth. 



Mr. J. S. DuNKERLT, to whom the use of the table was granted for 

 one month in 1914, reports as follows : 



' At Plymouth last summer I was collecting material from fishes' 

 gall-bladders for the study of Myxosporidian life-histories. I obtained 

 some very good material, especially of Ceratomyxa drepanopsett<2, 

 which supports, so far as I have examined it, the theory of Myxo- 

 sporidian Cytology put forward in a paper at present printing in ' ' Edin- 

 burgh Proc. E.S.," entitled " Agarella gracilis, a new species of 

 Myxosporidian from Lepidosiren paradoxa." Unfortunately the w^ar 

 has intervened and I am unable at present to continue my research 

 work, but I hope to continue my investigation of the material, and to 

 publish the results thereof after the war.' 



Since the last meeting only one application for the use of the table 

 has been received. This application was granted, but the applicant 

 subsequently withdrew owing to his employment on munition work. 



The Natural History of the Isle of Man.— Report of the Com- 

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

 Mr. P. M. C. Kermode (Secretary), Dr. W. T. Calman, 

 Eev. J. Davidson, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Professor E. W. 

 MacBride, and Lord Eaglan, appointed to make a Survey 

 thereof. 



The Committee regret to report that under the conditions caused by the 

 war they find it impossible now to carry on their proposed investigation 

 of the Natural History of the Isle of Man, and, as they see no prospect 

 of so doing for some considerable time, they think it better that they 

 should not be reappointed at the forthcoming meeting of the British 

 Association. 



