REPORT ON DREDGING AND OTHER MARINE RESEARCH, ETC. 87 



V. — RepOT't on Dredging and other Marine Research off the 

 North East Coast of England in igoi. By George 

 Stewardson Brady, M.D., LL.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Read March i8th, 1902. 



The study of local marine fisheries and fishing industries, 

 and of the natural history of fishes generally, which has been 

 prosecuted assiduously for several years back by my valued 

 colleague Mr. Meek, has seemed to me to require larger 

 development than our private means would afford, or than 

 could be supplied by the present equipment of the Marine 

 Laboratory at Cullercoats. With this view I applied to the 

 Royal Society for assistance from the Government Grant 

 which is annually placed at its disposal, specifying as the 

 objects to which I proposed to apply the grant, a research 

 into the nature and distribution of fish-food material off our 

 coasts, and generally the marine zoology of the same area. 

 The sum of twenty pounds for which I asked was granted, 

 and was applied to the expenses of a two days' steam 

 expedition in August last, to the purchase of additional 

 dredging apparatus, and to the expenses of a collector on 

 board of one of the Shields trawlers. The results have, I 

 think, quite justified the expenditure of time and money, and 

 lead one to believe that with further aid, and on a somewhat 

 larger scale, a still more interesting outcome may be looked 

 for. 



Mr. Alderman Dent kindly placed at our disposal, on very 

 favourable terms, his steamer " Stanley," an excellent sea- 

 going boat, and in every way admirably adapted for exploring 

 purposes, with comfortable sleeping accommodation for a 

 considerable party, steam-power for hauling up the dredges, 

 and a very willing and obliging crew. In addition to myself, 

 our party consisted of Mr. Meek, Lecturer on Zoology at the 

 Durham College of Science ; Mr. Gill, Curator of the Natural 



